Bug 204520 - NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE displayed as zero width
Summary: NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE displayed as zero width
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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Reported: 2009-08-20 13:41 UTC by kavol
Modified: 2018-11-10 19:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description kavol 2009-08-20 13:41:45 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (U+202F) is roughly the non-breaking equivalent of the THIN SPACE (U+2009) (please refer to http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf).

But it does not get displayed as a space, if I insert it somewhere into the text, there is no visible difference, unlike after inserting THIN SPACE, that works ok and displays a space.

This character is needed (also) to display the short form of the Czech dates (DateFormatShort) correctly (there has to be thin space after the dots, but the short form of the date cannot be divided at the end of the line).
Comment 1 ariasuni 2013-09-02 17:16:19 UTC
Happens to me on KDE 4.11.0. In Kate, and Dolphin, System Settings, etc (so I can confirm the bugs live somewhere on KDElibs).

In Kate, if I put some non-breaking space, it displays a dot (because Kate displays a dot to see spaces) but it doesn’t move the cursor one character to the right, so we can enter as many as non-breaking space as we like, the cursor stay at the same place.

It’s really annoying because narrow non-breaking space is frequently used in French (before !, ?, ;, after « and before », and some others cases).
Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-10 03:24:14 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 3 ariasuni 2018-11-10 19:36:32 UTC
It’s working on Plasma 5.