Comment 131 for bug 1013881

However, for most French people, standard Right-Ctrl key is more important
than Nbsp.
Especially for left-handed people who use left hand for the mouse and most
letters, and right hand for Shift, Ctrl and AltGr. A notable exception is
Alt which only exists on the left.

Anyway, it's written Ctrl on the Right-Ctrl, so it MUST behave as a Ctrl.

Put nbsp where you want, but give us back the Right-Ctrl.

2014-05-07 11:41 GMT+02:00 Nicolas-mailhot-laposte <
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> (In reply to comment #75)
> > Nicolas,
> >
> > Where does the need to *have* a key for nbsp come from?
>
> Because unlike in English most French punctuation symbols require a
> space (sometimes a short space) before. And if it's not a non-breakable
> space apps will perform line breaks at the wrong position and you'll end
> up with orphan sumbols at line starts
>
> Online
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_ins%C3%A9cable
>
> Actual authoritative reverence (highly recommended if you want to work on
> any system with French inputs or outputs)
>
> http://www.amazon.fr/Lexique-r%C3%A8gles-typographiques-lImprimerie-Nationale/dp/2743304820
>
> Lack of non breakspace on French layouts on some OSes is such a basic
> problem OpenOffice/LibreOffice had to hardcode a nbspc combo but that
> does not help when writing in you MUA, your browser, your IM client, etc
>
> > Isn't a compose
> > combo more appropriate and less error-prone?
>
> Compose is not appropriate for basic symbols you need to write pretty
> much any correct sentence in the target language. And adding a specific
> input method for one symbol just because some people can't live with the
> modifier ISO chose for level 5 is disproportionnate.
>
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