Re: non breaking space
Re: non breaking space
- Subject: Re: non breaking space
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:06:05 -0700
On 7/20/2004 9:12, "Dan McCann" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> Hmmm. I always knew 202 as "option-space" (that's how it's typed on a US
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> keyboard). I guess that's the same thing. I certainly know contexts where,
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> unlike regular space, it doesn't get trimmed (although Apple's Address Book
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> does trim it from the beginning and end of contact names).
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> In HTML-speak, when you see "nbsp;" is it referring to 202 or to a regular
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> space 32? I always assumed the latter.
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> And its Unicode is 160 = 00A0 ? I see that's even called NO-BREAK SPACE.
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OK,
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> thanks, Emmanuel
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I tried 202 (option-space) in my efforts. As far as I can tell it's an
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mspace; that is, it breaks like a regular space but is wider than a regular
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space. The weird thing is, every reference I looked at calls 202 a non
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breaking space. As far as I know nbsp; refers to 160.
Whether the non-breaking space breaks or not depends upon the software which
is in use, as does whether the option-spacebar keystroke combination
produces one.
In the early days, the width of a non-breaking space in variable width fonts
was the same as the width of the 10 digits (making it useful in tables of
varying size numbers). That's become more complicated (many nice fonts have
a series of digits which are NOT all the same width, but look much nicer in
flowing text, in addition to the regular digits).
produces a non-breaking space which browsers are supposed to respect
(in two ways...they don't break, and two of them together are twice as wide
as one of them, unlike two regular spaces, which together are the same width
in most contexts as one space).
--John
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