Spaces in French courses

[hbailey]

In French, we need to insert a space before every double sign (:;?!). These additional spaces must be non-breaking spaces to prevent the sign from appearing on the next line. I’ve been using a Unicode character (ctrl+shift+u)a0 to create these spaces, and it works well until I open the text in the editor or make changes to the text appearance in the theme. At that point, the non-breaking space seems to be replaced by a standard space. While it’s not a significant issue for this course since I’ve double-checked everything, it poses a real challenge for course creation in French. Is there a workaround?

https://ccde.evolveauthoring.com/courses/653b98c9623d9a8f2541ac2d/shared/index.html

I appreciate your assistance with these matters.
Catherine

[Matt_Leathes]

Hi Catherine-Helen

Having done a bit of research I’m actually a bit surprised this isn’t something you can do automatically via HTML/CSS these days…

However, you can set it manually where needed in Evolve. This is how it’s done:

[Cath]

Hi Matt,
Many thanks for your help!
I’ve also found a way to fix the problem: Evolve takes into account the narrow non-breaking space Unicode character U+202F, which means that I can copy and paste content already formatted instead of setting it manually.
Cheers
Catherine