The non breaking space, is a whitespace character or separator depending on the context. As far as i know it's not considered as a separator only when deciding text layout, it means do not break the line here: eg: "A distance of 100 meters" (nbsp between 100 and meters) should be rendered as either: > A distance of 100 meters or: > A distance of > 100 meters But not: > A distance of 100 > meters
There's an opposite character (don't remember the code) which means <you can break here if you need to> which is NOT a whitespace. On 25 September 2017 at 10:21, stephan <step...@stack.nl> wrote: > On 25-09-17 09:53, Richard Sargent wrote: > >> Rather than off-the-cuffing anything, please honour the Unicode Character >> Properties. Refer to >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property#Whitespace, >> among >> others. >> > > That is a good idea. And it won't help you if you scrape data from the > web, as you'll find plenty of bad encoding. And unclarity over which > version of which standard was used (see mongolian vowel separator) > > Stephan > > >
