Espace double

[Philippe Jallon <panafmed@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bonjour,

Voici la réaction d'un anglophone à l'occasion d'un message que 
j'avais posté sur une liste de diffusion consacrée au logiciel Eudora 
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At 12:42 am +0100 25/1/00, Philippe Jallon wrote:

> So, as far as I can read I noticed the way you end/begin sentences: 
> how come you need two blank spaces in a row before you begin a new 
> sentence?

The only other person who has ever complained of this was also a 
Frenchman.  So far as I know it is international practice to follow a 
full stop (period, point) with two spaces.  I have just had a look at 
a spread of messages from literate people and find they also use two 
spaces, with the exception of Frenchmen, Germans and Italians.

Steve Dorner, the author of Eudora, is also most insistent that this 
is correct practice and the Eudora html engine specifically uses two 
  to enforce this, so perhaps you should write to your Ministry 
of Education or the Académie Française and discover what official 
French practice is.  The next step, of course, is the Eudoropean 
Court and you will have to accept not only our mad cows but also our 
mad punctuation :-)

JD

PS. If you read any RFC you will find two spaces after a full stop. 
RFCs are very carefully produced and checked with regard to 
punctuation before publishing.
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Philippe Jallon
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