Word keyword

[Ben Rubinstein]

on 15/12/04 9:11 pm, Erik Hansen wrote
> what is a "hard space"?

AKA "non breaking space".  It's a character which is not a space, but has no
black pixels.  It's nothing to do with Rev - it was invented early in
word-processing - it looks like a space on the printed page, but
line-breaking code doesn't realise it isn't a normal character, so it
doesn't break the line.

On the Mac, you've traditionally entered it using option-space; in HTML,
it's represented by  .

Basically, it's a venerable hack.  And if you think that's bad, Unicode has
reserved another code point to represent a "zero-width non-breaking space".
I really don't know what purpose that serves!

 
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