<i18n dev> RFR: 8356980: Better handling of non-breaking space

[Phil Race]

On Wed, 14 May 2025 15:11:24 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Non-breaking space characters are problematic. They look identical to the normal space character, but is not. For that reason, it should never be typed as an UTF-8 literal, but only by using unicode sequences.
> 
> I have checked:
> * U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE (NBSP)
> * U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (NNBSP)
> * U+2007 FIGURE SPACE
> * U+2060 WORD JOINER
> 
> In some places, these character were used when an ordinary space should have been used. I replaced those with normal space. In other places, they were correct, but as literals instead of unicode sequences. I replaced those instances with sequences.

src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/gtk/resources/gtk_fr.properties line 39:

> 37: GTKColorChooserPanel.hue.textAndMnemonic=&Teinte :
> 38: 
> 39: GTKColorChooserPanel.red.textAndMnemonic=Roug&e\u00a0:

So, this exactly reverses what was done in the fix for https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8301991
But I think you know that ..  since you commented on the PR

The fix was done by @justin-curtis-lu and reviewed by
@naotoj so I think I'd like to get their opinion on this

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25234#discussion_r2089371921