Can you elaborate a bit more?

26-01-2018 17:48 tarihinde Matej Lieskovský yazdı:
> Greetings!
>
> Several Slavic languages have rather formal rules about line breaks.
> We in Czechia have a few contributors who take the time to add
> nonbreakable spaces to names that "need" them. Needless to say, the
> current situation is rather inconsistent, with nonbreakable spaces
> occurring in the data but nowhere near being reliable. The local talk
> is also divided on the topic of whether nonbreakable spaces should be
> encouraged or removed.
>
> We know that at least some renderers (including osm.org) actually make
> use of the nonbreakable spaces. Nominatim does Unicode collation,
> handling nonbreakable spaces well. Overpass does not and its
> suspicious behaviour was what alerted us to the problem in the first
> place.
>
> Both having and not having nonbreakable spaces has its pros and cons.
> The current state of uncertainty is the worst of both worlds. In an
> attempt to find a resolution and prevent an edit war, we reached out
> to the DWG, which did not solve the dispute. We now ask for opinions
> here.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Matej Lieskovský
>
> PS: The rules are formal enough that there exists a 1997 program
> "Vlna" ("Tilde"), that can add nonbreakable spaces to TeX source files
> and is commonly used for important documents.
>
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