Fact · Languages and accents
The Québec language office's spacing table shows the colon (deux-points) with a non-breaking space before it and a normal space after it.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Une espace insécable Une espace Les étapes sont les suivantes”
Espacement avant et après les signes de ponctuation et les symboles, Office québécois de la langue française, n.d., Table of punctuation spacing (Deux-points row).
Open the original- What it measures
- The table gives, for each mark, whether the space on each side is normal or non-breaking. The colon row is one of its entries.
- What it does not show
- This is Québec practice. France's Imprimerie nationale rules may specify a thin non-breaking space; the Lexique was not reachable here. Check the publication for the exact width.