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Insert non-breaking spaces
Authored by: leraillez@netinf on Mar 25, '08 02:14:10AM
I'm not sure how far back this goes, but on Leopard at least, pressing Option-Space on the US or US Extended keyboard layouts inserts a non-breaking space (U+00A0) rather than a normal space (U+0020).
This has been the rule on French keyboards since... but it's broken in Mail.app in Leopard (I never used Mal.app before TimeMachine and the fact that a big mail database is a Go hog in backups). Mail.app 3 inserts normal spaces instead of non breaking spaces and it's frustrating. In French you insert non-breaking spaces before "; : ? !" and » and after «. So you get punctuation marks at the beginning of lines and that's not very clean, to say the least.

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