Expansion: Thin space (U+2006) and narrow no-break space (U+202F)

Bug #1171487 reported by mach
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Font Family
New
Undecided
Unassigned
fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

By typographic convention, a thin spaced is used in some special cases, for instance, as a thousands separator, or, in French, as a guillemets separator, or, in German, in abbreviated phrases such as «z. B.». Since the Ubuntu font does not feature a thin space, applications will use replacement thin spaces from other fonts. In the worst of cases, these replacements are no thinner than Ubuntu's regular space.

Proposed solution: Assign U+2006 THIN SPACE and U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE to a glyph that has half the width of the regular space character (U+0020). Probably not in Ubuntu Mono.

Changed in fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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