>
> > 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?
>

I am not an HTML expert but I played with "lang=en" and "lang=fr"
attributes on "html", "body" and "p" elements, and in all three cases
Firefox, Chrome and EWW broke lines at strange places from my point of
view, unrelated to the lang attribute:

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> > 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?
>

AFAIU they do by inserting non-breaking spaces when the punctuation
characters are inserted; This doesn't apply when copy-pasting...
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Matthias