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French typographic rules prescribe a space before ‘!’, ‘;’, ‘:’, and ‘?’.

• Krasnol 8y ago
  Interesting. I've never realized it. I learned french in school but couldn't remember learning about that. Example: https://www.gouvernement.fr/argumentaire/parcoursup-la-plateforme-a-rempli-sa-mission https://www.gouvernement.fr/argumentaire/parcoursup-la-plate...
  • alain94040 8y ago
    To be super-pedantic, the correct character is a non-breakable half-space (unicode 0x202F). It actually makes sense: it shouldn't be breakable, or the text layout would be ugly (the colon starting on a new line?). And it should be reduced in size, because indeed you don't want a full space before a colon...
  • jobigoud 8y ago
    This article is using the international quotation marks though, proper typography would be to use « and », which also require non-breaking spaces before and after them. The rule for punctuation is that the nbsp is before the double punctuations, those with two elements (?!;:).