Comment 138 for bug 1013881

You're kidding ! In France, professional typographists use Macintosh, I
fear. And the average French user is not "Joe", he's "Jean".

And I'll write unconstructive sarcasms until I get my Right-Ctrl back ! (Do
note the French style space before the exclamation marks)
Le 12 mai 2014 07:10, "Swâmi Petaramesh" <email address hidden> a
écrit :

> About a "short nbsp" in french, let's make it perfectly clear that there
> must be about a hundred professionnal typographists in the whole country
> who care about it - most of them not using Linux BTW - and the rest of
> the ~40 million computer users here don't give a shit about a "short
> nbsp" and don't even know what it is, feel perfectly happy with the
> "correct french" they write without it, and many of them just would like
> their fscking right [Ctrl] key back.
>
> If a so thin minority of professional typographists that in no way
> represent the average french "Joe" user want this modifier, it's
> perfectly OK that they devise their own special layout for their on
> needs, but by no means impose it on the rest of us.
>
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