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Spaces around colons

Today I discovered why it is that the French have been placing a space in front of colons (:), and it has been driving me mad.

In English it is usually seen as being wrong to place a space before a colon. However according to Lars Aronsson on the lingu-dev mailing list, it is normal practice in French to place a space before the colon.

You learn something new every day.

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