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French (français)
Code fr. Not reviewed by a native speaker.
This page is generated by bun run docs:languages from the pack in src/core/lang/fr.ts. Do not edit it by hand: src/lang-docs.test.ts fails when it is out of date. A no-break space is shown as ~.
Quotation
| Register | Levels, outermost first |
|---|---|
| display | «~…~», “…” |
| literary | as display |
A quotation nested deeper than the levels listed starts over from the first.
An apostrophe before a dropped-letter word is not a quotation mark: 'em, 'til, 'till, 'cause, 'bout, 'round, 'tis, 'twas, 'cos, 'n'.
Dashes
| What | Setting |
|---|---|
| break in the sentence | spaced em dash |
| break in the sentence, literary | spaced em dash |
| line of dialogue (a paragraph opening with a dash) | em dash and a no-break space, in both registers |
Spaces
- One-letter words kept with the next word: none.
- Short words kept with the next word, in a title (the opt-in rule
space.short-word): none. - A no-break space between a number and %: yes.
- A no-break space between a number and € after it: yes.
- Abbreviations: no list.
Numbers
Groups of three are separated by ~, the decimal mark is ,.
Sources
- https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/23371/la-ponctuation/tiret/le-tiret-dans-les-dialogues
- https://style-guide.europa.eu/en/content/-/isg/topic?identifier=6.5-punctuation-in-figures
Notes
A no-break space is set inside the guillemets. Digits are grouped with a no-break space (number.group), as the Interinstitutional Style Guide sets for all languages; the decimal mark is a comma. Dialogue: a dash marks each change of speaker, with a no-break space after an opening dash (OQLF Vitrine linguistique, “Le tiret dans les dialogues” and its spacing table); the OQLF accepts the em and the en dash, the engine uses the em dash.
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