1009256 - FR locale needs   before any ! or ? which affects the desktop snippet service

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Snippets :: Service, defect)

Description

[Jean Collings]

French typography has a different rule for breaking spaces when including ! or ? 

Here are two examples:
JSON Snippet ID: 6
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1009226


Desktop Snippet ID: 3761
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1002554

So it's necessary to add   for the text to show correctly however the addition of & affects whether or not it gets pushed out in the snippet server.

Comment 1

[Théo Chevalier]

Note (just to be sure we are on the same page) that of course the non-breaking space HTML entity must be treated like any other HTML entity and be replaced by the browser with the non-breaking character.

For instance œ will be replaced with "œ" by Firefox.

Seems pretty obvious, but worth mentioning it rather that seeing " " displayed on about:home later :)

Comment 2

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

It looks like using the unicode character U+202F which was designed exactly for this case solves the problem, as it produces valid XML. Maybe it's worth investigating an easy way to add this character when needed either by translating it's HTML representation   to unicode on save() or by adding a javascript call to add it in text box on button click.

The simplest way is to copy paste it from wikipedia page :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space

Comment 3

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

The special unicode character seems to be working just fine.

We can automatically convert html entity   to the special space, on snippet save to make this even easier.

Jean, would this automation be helpful to you or are you fine using the special space directly?

Comment 4

[Jean Collings]

No you don't need to build in the automation, it's pretty easy for me to use the special space directly. Thank you.