Pages can not be professionally used by French speaking users
There's no way to put it simpler. Please consider un-archiving this (three years old!) discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2109023?start=60&tstart=0
And Apple, please consider updating Pages, unless you consider that French is on the verge of extinction? How many French-speaking users buy a Mac to actually work with it? Among those people, how many have to write for their work? Don't you want to have these people buy Pages instead of Word?
I was waiting for the iCloud sync (finally active with Mountain Lion) to finally switch from Word to Pages, but your contempt for French is frustrating, not to say almost insulting.
French only requires individable spaces before ; ? : ! and between brackets. If I knew how to code, I guess it would take 8 minutes to add to Pages. But I can only imagine the frustration encountered by even-less-frequently-used languages.
Please don't give me the alt+space tip to add undividable spaces. It's like using a different pen each time you want to write a .