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Re: Strange whitespaces.


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: Re: Strange whitespaces.
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:56:42 +0000



name: NO-BREAK SPACE

name: EN SPACE

I am puzzled by this phenomenon: Why do people design so many whitespace representations and how to safely manipulate them between different editors


There's nothing strange happening here. There are indeed many kinds of spaces with different properties, just like there are many kinds of dashes with different properties. An en space is a half em space, just like an en dash is a half em dash. A no-break space is what its name suggests, it means that the editor should not break the line there. Say you want to indicate a list in a paragraph with (a), (b), (c), for example in: "We need to buy (a) apples, (b) brownies, (c) chocolate." You typically do not want to see:

We need to buy (a) apples, (b)
brownies, (c) chocolate.

and you do this by putting a no-break space between "(a)" and "apples", "(b)" and "brownies", "(c)" and "chocolate".



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