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Originally Posted by unkilbeeg
In typing class there was a good reason for it. All except the most expensive typewriters were monospace, and you really need that extra space for your eye to pick out the beginning of a sentence.
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No, you don't. In many languages there's no additional space between sentences, the full stop (and context) is enough to know where a sentence ends.
The reason is that traditionally English typesetting has used
more space between sentences than normally between words. That's OK, but in monospace fonts (as in typewriters), the only way to have more than a single space is having two spaces. In more advanced typesetting systems (like TeX) there are ways to specify where a sentence ends and how much additional space there should be. In HTML and similar there is, as far as I know, no such way.
But that's probably good, because it's one of those things, like hyphenation, that you have to set and check manually if you want it to be correct, and it looks really sloppy if it's wrong.