[XeTeX] Polyglossia and French punctuation

[Jonathan Kew]

On 6 Feb 2008, at 12:50 pm, François Charette wrote:

> Yves Codet a écrit :
>> <...> I just noticed a similar issue when a double punctuation  
>> follows
>> \emph{} or \textbf{} (I couldn’t say whether it happens whenever a
>> curly brace precedes), as is shown in the attached examples.
>
> Hmmm, in this case I am puzzled. Jonathan, is this a bug with
> \XeTeXinterchartoks, or is there a workaround for such situations ?

\XeTeXinterchartoks does not currently apply across font changes, or  
anything else that interrupts a run of text. Hmmmmm. Maybe that  
should change...

JK