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Re: [NonGNU Elpa] New package: electric-french


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [NonGNU Elpa] New package: electric-french
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:55:31 +0300

> From: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 20:20:34 +0200
> Cc: ruijie@netyu.xyz, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> French text typed in Emacs is not necessary rendered in Emacs only: An HTML 
> page written in Emacs
> but rendered in Firefox will have it's line breaks at different places and 
> non-breaking spaces will apply
> for Firefox as well as Emacs.

Isn't it the job of a Web browser to display French text correctly,
breaking lines only where a French reader would expect?  I didn't know
browsers needed help in that by inserting NBSP.  Do they?

> Other example: I use to type text in Emacs and later copy-paste in word 
> processing applications; I am
> happy to have non-breaking spaces already in place.

Same here: isn't it the job of the word processor to break lines
correctly for French?



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