Support for U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE

[lfourquaux]

It would be nice to have U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE in Source Sans Pro. This is a blank glyph, usually a bit narrower than a normal space.

U+202F is used in French typography (before some punctuation marks), although many people substitute either a normal space or no space. It is also used in Mongolian.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(punctuation)#Spaces_in_Unicode for more details on this character.

[LariElovainio]

In Finnish, we use narrow spaces as thousand separators, in dates, and with the percent sign, so this would come in handy.

[pauldhunt]

in what workflows is this necessary? i thought that in InDesign at least these spaces were always available independent of the font chosen. it seems that some smart font fallback would easily remedy this issue.

[lfourquaux]

It matters e.g. for webfonts. Using Adobe Source Sans Pro on a web page, and viewing the page on Android, there is a fallback font but it's far from complete. I'm sure there are other scenarios where no good fallback is available.

[pauldhunt]

i just wish i didn’t have to keep adding more glyphs to cater to shortcomings in Andriod :^p when will it stop?

[nicolashenry]

I need narrow space for thousand separator with web font too. Any news on this issue ?

[pauldhunt]

i will add this to my list of things to do for the next version.