[Wikipedia-l] Re: non-breaking space (Re: Re: Please use  (Bug))

Sat Mar 1 11:54:37 UTC 2003

On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:10:19 +0100, Karl Eichwalder 
<ke at gnu.franken.de> wrote:

> Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> writes:
>
>> If those aren't supposed to be spaces, then that's a bug in itself, but
>> I don't know if it's with the browser or the wiki. Please test...
>
> I've another complaint.  In German we are using ISO-8859-1 (or
> ISO-8859-15?); both contain the non-breaking space: " " in HTML
> "&nbsp;".  But when I write "3 dogs" the parser replace the
> non-breaking space with a simple space.
>
> I rate this behavior as a bug.

It must be browser dependent, I think. Opera displays &nbsp; using 
character 160 decimal, which would be what you want.
(This causes me hedaches, because I have occasion to use an automatic 
script generator written by someone else which uses a lot of &nbsp;s. Since 
the Server-side processor these are destined for treats them as non- 
whitespace and throws errors, I ahve to go on a search and destroy mission 
in my text editor after copying the output.

-- 
Richard Grevers