[kbd] Please support narrow no-break space (U+202F)

[Alexey Gladkov]

26.08.2010 02:02, Nicolas Delvaux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> narrow no-break space chars (lets say nnbsp) are used in French before
> ";?!»" chars and after "«". It is also used in other language, for
> example for the short form of the Czech dates.
> 
> Currently, when I switch to a TTY and type a nnbsp, it displays a kind
> of diamond (Ubuntu 10.04).
> (if you can't easily type a nnbsp with your keyboard layout, run
> "/usr/bin/printf '\u202Fx\n'")
> 
> I had a look in kbd .uni files, and I didn't found any sign of u+202f
> So I propose to just use nnbsp as U+0020 (white space). The same was
> done for "no-break space" (U+00a0) and it works.
> 
> Someone pointed to me that this behavior is consistent with the
> 'wcwidth' function of glibc:
> 
> This program:
> =============================================================
> #include <locale.h>
> #include <wctype.h>
> #include <wchar.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main () {
>   setlocale (LC_ALL, "fr_FR.UTF-8");
>   printf ("wcwidth (0x00A0) = %d\n", wcwidth (0x00A0));
>   printf ("wcwidth (0x202F) = %d\n", wcwidth (0x202F));
>   return 0;
> }
> =============================================================
> return
> wcwidth (0x00A0) = 1
> wcwidth (0x202F) = 1
> 
> 
> I don't know if adding this support is just as simple as adding "u+202f"
> at the 0x20 line of each .uni file (if so I can provide a patch if you
> want).

You suggest to replace different types of whitespace symbols with 0x20.

Have I understood you correctly?

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