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[css-text] Spacing in Canadian French

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Description

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#valdef-text-autospace-punctuation

In this level, if the element’s content language is French, narrow no-break space (U+202F) and no-break space (U+00A0) is inserted where required by French typographic guidelines.

Canadian French is not mentioned in the link and the rules are different for Canadian French. There’s no extra space before question marks, exclamation marks, and semicolons, for example. We should probably need to add spaces depending on the region.

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Research direction

Start with the CSS Text 4 text-autospace definition linked in the issue, then compare the cited French and Canadian French typographic guidance. Determine how regional content language should affect spacing before punctuation, and document a precise specification change that resolves the difference.

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Assessment

Tech stack
css
Domain
internationalization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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