multiple pages: fix French colon punctuation

[bl-ue]

Ensures that there is always one space character before colons (0xa0 thin unbreakable space instead of 0x20 normal space) in French pages.

[sbrl]

These are just a few of the issues - I think your regex went a bit wrong lol

The last character has been replaced with a space, rather than a space being inserted.

Finally, does that strange space character mean anything in particular in French? Best to check before changing it.

[bl-ue]

@sbrl, you're right!! Funny 😄

Finally, does that strange space character mean anything in particular in French? Best to check before changing it.

I changed it because more pages have a normal space (139 pages) than ones that have the strange one (5), and that space was also in an English page...

[bl-ue]

@sbrl I found a bunch more of that mistake so I just went back to the beginning and re-did it all. Done now ;)

[schneiderl]

I've once seen someone explaining this weird space here in tldr but I cannot remember what is the reason for it.

[bl-ue]

@schneiderl could you be thinking of #3446 (comment)?

[bl-ue]

😬 I fear that I was wrong about the space...maybe there should be a 0xa0 / 160 char code space before every colon...cc @julienc91 @dgsb

[julienc91]

Indeed, as I said in the comment you reported, French typographic rules require this non-breaking space before some punctuation characters (":", ";", "?" and "!" in particular). Replacing those by a normal space (0x20) would potentially break the layout by putting the punctuation character alone at the beginning of a line.

[bl-ue]

@julienc91 okay, thank you very much. I didn't know this.

@mebeim mentioned in #3446 (comment) "Indeed a space before and after the colon should be used" —so there should be a non-breaking space after the colon as well as before?

[julienc91]

@mebeim A non-breaking space before the colon, and a normal space after.
Basically, this is allowed:

A long line that ends with a colon :
and the sentence continues on the
next one

But this is not:

A long line that ends with a word
: and the next line starts with a 
colon.

[bl-ue]

Really nice, thank you @julienc91.

Is the space after the : colon required at the end of a sentence that's on its own line? Obviously, in the middle of a sentence there should be, but what about at the end of one of our examples like this—

- Compresser un fichier ou un dossier :

`...`

We wouldn't need to add a space after that, would we?

[julienc91]

No space after if you have a line return character right after. Regex style (with 0xa0 and 0x20 being respectively the non breaking space and the normal space):

[^:]+(0xa0):($|(0x20))

[bl-ue]

Okay, thank you @julienc91. This is very good to know. Now I will proceed.

By the way, it's 0xa0 (160) ' ', not 0x0a (10) '\n' 😉

[bl-ue]

Done.

@julienc91 do these look right?

• https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/pull/5152/files#diff-1c61aa9a8397c4430c25df09cbaf6c7596bfacb1019fe0da6a93e5bca201dc92R15
• https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/pull/5152/files#diff-4cb665ce9eff7c93b1faf87f558b7e734162eb62ee852205f6c745792a545877R33
• https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/pull/5152/files#diff-7cde9138294422a6ce303d10c7f157ae8a460762e746999d85674f2d3a7b7249R23

Also, should ex : be ici :?

[julienc91]

@bl-ue looks good to me! Also, "ex" is shorthand "example", while "ici" just means "here", so I guess it depends on the context? I didn't see any error in the 3 occurrences I found.

[bl-ue]

Okay! I was just wondering if perhaps someone who translated those pages missed something :)

Thank you very much @julienc91 for your help! You've been extremely helpful!

Done @sbrl

[sbrl]

Looks good to me! I assume the regular space was swapped for a non-breaking one right?

[bl-ue]

Exactly.

[bl-ue]

Note: Just in case anyone forgets, please squash this PR and do not rebase it. The commit history is a little messy because I was learning the whole way through :)