Comment 17 for bug 608631

Nicolas, the reason why it wouldn't make much sense to implement right now is relatively simple: this is a feature that would only be used by French translators, and it would involve adding some special hacks in a few places. Launchpad is very complex and adding anything without proven value is going to cause us maintenance nightmares in the long run. I.e. we are probably going to break it even without realizing.

As for the explanation for the "graphical" tag: the nature of these are entirely different to those we have today (which are for English messages: this one would be on the translation instead). So, that means that we'd have to implement it for translations as well, and that's a little bit more work because we would want it to work in the future with more things we might introduce :)

Also, bug comments don't display the narrow nbsp as being narrower because they are using fixed-width fonts for display. It will probably depend on the fonts a user is using anyway, so just a simple display tag might be a good first step.

To get us out of the "trapped" position, let's wait for responses from gnome-l10n-fr and ubuntu-l10n-fr. Even if they just agree that it's a good idea, we should help you implement it for Launchpad — as long as there is a consensus about it :)