French typography
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- trans|mission
we're having an argument here and I hope you folks can help. In English when showing a date range (2001–2002) we use an en dash would that not be true for french as well? We're being told that a hyphen is proper for french.
- 5timuli0
IMO a hyphen should never be acceptable, just as foot and inch marks should never be acceptable in place of quote marks.
Fucking imbeciles.
:P
- 5timuli0
AND KERN YOUR 1s IN TEXT YOU MORONS!
- 5timuli0
Double-spacing shall be severely punished.
- trans|mission0
bastards always want things there own way!
- harlequino0
It's why they couldn't win the war.
- Jaline0
Some of the punctuation is different in French, such as quotations.
I wouldn't be surprised.
- non0
I'm french.
- Jaline0
I don't see it on this page and have not heard of it thus far (I work on both English and French pages at work, and I have to correct stuff occasionally):
- Jaline0
Hi, non.
I used to work in Gatineau.
- trans|mission0
hey non, what do you know about this? is an en a no-no?
- non0
We indeed use hyphens for dates.
- Bender0
also eat frog legs and are born smokers
- Crouwel0
i smell french people..
*snif snif
- Cactus0
It depends on the context of course but normally it's written like this:
2001 à 2002
....that oder is coming from your water-logged clogs.
- Crouwel0
my clogs are outside. it's sunday, i wear my sunday shoes now. i will go to the church again in a minute.
- Cactus0
Sale huguenot!