Bug 8401

Summary:	nbsp (u+00a0) in both sans and serif too wide
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Roman <rohrr>
Component:	Serif	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Roman 2006-09-22 16:42:07 UTC

Non breaking space looks about twice wider than normal space. Is that ok? Should
not it have the same width as normal space (U+0020)? I see the same on Linux or
Windows with 2.5 or 2.10 version of the font.

Comment 1 Denis Jacquerye 2006-09-22 23:49:01 UTC

As a matter of fact NNBSP is odd too.
Currently we have widths (inherited from Bitstream Vera fonts for most):
 SPACE (U+0020)             651
*NBSP  (U+00A0)            1303
*NNBSP (U+202F)            2048
 FIGURE SPACE (U+2007)     1303
 PUNCTUATION SPACE (U+2008) 651
 THIN SPACE (U+2009)        409
 HAIR SPACE (U+200A)        204

NBSP should have the same width as SPACE, and NNBSP should be narrower, 409 like
THIN SPACE for example.

Comment 2 Denis Jacquerye 2006-09-23 01:33:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> *NNBSP (U+202F)            2048
NNBSP is actually not there, I was misread in Fontforge.

Comment 3 Denis Jacquerye 2006-11-23 02:35:48 UTC

NBSP is as wide as SPACE, and NNBSP as THIN SPACE across fonts.

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