724379 - “NO-BREAK SPACE” (U+00A0) interpretated incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[dohnp5a1]

Attachment: The preposition “s” may not stand in the end of line in Czech, thus no-break space is used after that.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/15.0.874.106 Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2

Steps to reproduce:

The character “NO-BREAK SPACE” (U+00A0) is incorrectly interpretated like “fixed width no-break space” (similarly as in other browsers). The fixed width is impedimental there, to keep the typographical rules and create a nice document with the block justification, there is a need of a normal, flexible non-breaking space after some characters (in LaTeX “~” has this function). Now, the space after U+00A0 is narrower than other spaces in the same line, which is ugly.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please provide an example URL or attach a testcase.
You reported this bug with a webkit based browser. Is this report about Firefox and if yes, which version ?

Comment 2

[dohnp5a1]

Wrong testing, the problem is already sorted out.