Talk:Non-breaking space

message: Move to non-breaking space.
* I've never seen nonbreaking before; it always has a hyphen.
*Nonbreaking is clearly just a syntatical compound as opposed to a lexical item in its own right.
* The prefix non- generally takes a hyphen.
* Google hits for non-breaking beat those for nonbreaking by 114'000 to 14'500
--Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 20:13, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
:It seems like a clear consensus. I have moved the page now, from Nonbreaking space to Non-breaking space -- Zanaq 4 July 2005 18:45 (UTC)
::please fix double redirects when you do a move. Plugwash 7 July 2005 23:36 (UTC)
:::How do you mean? I've checked for incoming links and found none. Should I have done something additionally? Zanaq 8 July 2005 12:38 (UTC) 
:::*addition: now I suddenly see incoming links for nonbreaking space. Maybe I made an error. But there is a redirect on nonbreaking to non-breaking. How can I check for double redirects? Zanaq 8 July 2005 14:27 (UTC)
::if you look at what links here and you see redirects listed under redirects in the tree rather than at the top level of the tree you have double redirects.
::the reason you didn't see any when you checked here is because i already fixed them. my message was not intended to state that it still needed to be done in this case but that whoever made the move needs to check for such things in future. Plugwash
::If you've never seen “nonbreaking”, you never researched the topic of hyphenation, and did not read much about typography. For instance, you've never read The Chicago Manual of Style… 81.64.175.153 (talk) 16:53, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: How can we make strings of kanji or other Asian characters non-breaking? That is, how can we prevent the browser from breaking between characters at the end of a line? I've tried using zero-width non-breaking spaces (﻿), but it doesn't appear to work.  I am cross-posting this from Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). Dforest 06:45, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest using ... - I haven't tried it, but it ought to work. JulesH 10:14, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-breaking Kanji

message: I just added the entry for EBCDIC in the Encodings section.  I only checked that it was indeed 0x41 in CCSIDs 037, 285, and 500.  Someone more knowledgeable in EBCDIC than I should check the other varients.  If someone could site an authoritative source, that would be even better.  Also, I'm not sure that it is indeed called a 'No-Break Space' in EBCDIC.
::fixed spaces in composition programs using EBCDIC: In the extended graphics EBCDIC implemented by RCA Graphic Services Division in the early 1970s with PAGE-1 designed to run on 360/370 mainframes for typesetting on the VideoComp, 0x41 was an em space, 0x42 was an en space, 0x43 was an thin space. Those fixed spaces were non-breaking. The RCA GSD coding conventions were carried over by others with similar composition packages (ABCS, P900). Naaman Brown (talk) 19:28, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  EBCDIC varification needed 

message: Talk about making a simple subject complicated.  What's with the introduction to this article?  What's a RAJA?  And why would you want to put nbsps in the middle of a word like that?  I'd suggest using an example of two units that should always be kept together, e.g. the two parts of a phone number with area code (in the UK style, which uses a space to separate them, not the US style which I believe uses a hyphen?). JulesH 10:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hmmm. 

message: It seems like the ALT+0160 keystroke works from everywhere in Windows not only for MS PowerPoint ©  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.208.38 (talk) 08:31, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ALT+255 does the same thing.Number36 23:32, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  For Windows 

message: A markup proposal has been developed which will be of interest to editors here. There is also current discussion at WT:MOS (see the link at the top of the proposal).
See a full draft of the proposal
 
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– Noetica♬♩ Talk 22:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hard space OR non-break space OR non-breaking space at Wikipedia: a proposal 

message: to make a NBSP in GoLive: Press Shift+spacebar (Windows) or Option+spacebar (Mac OS).208.125.235.35 (talk) 18:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adobe GoLive 

message: I just can't see why the thin space would not be non-breaking (sorry for the double negative), and that consequently someone had to come up with a "NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE" (U+202F) version. If you think about it for a moment,   should be non-breaking, else it does only half of its job. --Jerome Potts (talk) 22:06, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, i found my answer : a line break may occur immediately after a thin space, which means that it does not get replaced by the line break, but remains there. Hmmm. --Jerome Potts (talk) 07:45, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thin space 

message: This article says, "In HTML, a non-breaking space is created by replacing the space with  ." That is not the only way of doing it. You can also just insert the Unicode character directly in the page, if your editor supports your target Unicode encoding method (usually UTF-8 for Roman alphabet scripts). This saves typing and uses 4 fewer bytes. On the other hand, it makes the encoding harder to understand, because visually a non-breaking space looks like a normal space. Bostoner (talk) 19:09, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode character in HTML 

message: I have removed the sentences "Non-breaking space can also be used to automatically change formatting in a document. This is useful for things like class plans and recipe files where the description of a cell or line may be different from the actual text or title" because it is vague and ambiguous, and provides no clear information.
Romit3 (talk) 22:34, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-breaking spaces for 'automatic' formatting of class plans and recipe files 

message: The chart currently says "Not available" for ASCII. Alt code "Alt 255", which enters a hexadecimal "FF", works as a non-breaking space in Wikitext on my display - isn't this considered to be an ASCII function? Or does its display depend on the operating system? I'm using Windows XP. Milkunderwood (talk) 06:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I've been bold and gone ahead, replacing the incorrect ASCII "Not available" with Hex FF; and also simply reversed the sequence of 255 and 0160 in the table below. Milkunderwood (talk) 05:57, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The non-breaking space is not available in ASCII, since ASCII only covers code 0-127 (0-7F hex). It is available in several versions of Extended ASCII such as CP437 and Latin-1 (CP1252), but that is already mentioned. FF hex is not universally recognised as NBSP. A0 hex / 160 dec is more common. Alt-255 is Microsoft-only, but there does exist other operating systems and software vendors. --BIL (talk) 12:11, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay - thanks for the explanation. Milkunderwood (talk) 19:28, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encoding in ASCII 

message: Currently, the article mentions the use of a non-breaking space before double punctuation specifically in Canadian French, whereas the parallel article in the French Wikipedia mentions it for French French, and in fact states Canadian French only employs it for a more limited set of punctuation. I tend to trust the French article on this one; can someone verify this and/or edit the article accordingly? 2A02:8109:9200:7F58:4A9:E0F6:B6D9:1FD0 (talk) 03:35, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage in French 

message: As recent editors of this article, you may be able to help with the too-wide nbsp problem, which exists  at the  page. Please discuss this directly at Template talk:As of#Template introduces too much space? if you can help. Boud (talk) 17:40, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  'As of' discussion - nbsp expert help needed