Title: French punctuation
Last modified: November 9, 2020

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# French punctuation

 *  Resolved [kambro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kambro/)
 * (@kambro)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/french-punctuation/)
 * There is an error in the “Space control” page : French punctuation asks to have
   a thin non-breakable space before »?!; and after » but a normal non-breakable
   space ( ) before :

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 *  Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/)
 * (@pputzer)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/french-punctuation/#post-13639904)
 * What exactly does not work? There’s a seperate setting on the General page (thin
   non-breakable spaces are not supported in some browsers, so by default they are
   replaced with ` `).
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/).
 *  Thread Starter [kambro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kambro/)
 * (@kambro)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/french-punctuation/#post-13639939)
 * It’s not that something doesn’t work ; there is just a French typographical error.
   
   In French typography, we must use a thin non-breakable space only before this
   characters: »?!; For the colon after a word, we must use a normal non-breakable
   space (and not a thin non-breakable space.
 *  Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/)
 * (@pputzer)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/french-punctuation/#post-13640688)
 * Ah, I see. You mean the text of the Settings page itself. For historical reasons(
   i.e. as to not break translations), the description is not technically correct.
   The typographical fix itself does differentiate between `:` and the other punctuation
   marks.
 *  Thread Starter [kambro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kambro/)
 * (@kambro)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/french-punctuation/#post-13640714)
 * Oh good to now ! Thank you for your help.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/french-punctuation/#post-13640714)
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