From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>
Cc: ruijie@netyu.xyz, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NonGNU Elpa] New package: electric-french
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:55:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335354u3g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEQCfAxjHj3h9W9Z2J-cJ1EKdX9pUCtjBSULqZFizVYH6w3hQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Matthias Meulien on Mon, 5 Jun 2023 20:20:34 +0200)
> From: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 20:20:34 +0200
> Cc: ruijie@netyu.xyz, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> French text typed in Emacs is not necessary rendered in Emacs only: An HTML page written in Emacs
> but rendered in Firefox will have it's line breaks at different places and non-breaking spaces will apply
> for Firefox as well as Emacs.
Isn't it the job of a Web browser to display French text correctly,
breaking lines only where a French reader would expect? I didn't know
browsers needed help in that by inserting NBSP. Do they?
> Other example: I use to type text in Emacs and later copy-paste in word processing applications; I am
> happy to have non-breaking spaces already in place.
Same here: isn't it the job of the word processor to break lines
correctly for French?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-05 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-04 14:15 [NonGNU Elpa] New package: electric-french Ruijie Yu via Emacs development discussions.
2023-06-04 19:31 ` Matthias Meulien
2023-06-05 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-05 18:20 ` Matthias Meulien
2023-06-05 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-06-05 21:22 ` Matthias Meulien
2023-06-05 8:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
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