Non-breaking space

A non-breaking space (English no-break space, even non-breaking space, NBSP abbreviated, sometimes referred to as a permanent blank ) prevents unwanted automatic line break at the position of the space, which could impair the legibility and disrupt the flow of reading.

It is used both in the briefs and in the digital typography.

Digital typography

The protected space is in HTML source code with the code generated. The Unicode character set is A0 to find at position U 00 Unicode Latin-1 Supplement block.

In addition to the ordinary non-breaking spaces are in the Unicode standard, even a narrow non-breaking space ( engl. narrow no-break space, NNBSP abbreviated position U 202 F ), a non-breaking space without its own width ( engl. zero width no-break space, U FEFF position, ), the empty clause ( engl. figure space, position U 2007 ) and the Mongolian Vokalseparator (English mongolian vowel separator, abbreviated MVS, position U 180 e), which largely corresponds to the NNBSP, but also may have influence on the shape of the adjacent character. The wrapping behavior is described in the Unicode line breaking algorithm.

Coding

The protected spaces are defined as follows and coded:

In the ASCII character set from 1963 no protected space is included, which is why many older computer systems they could not represent. Almost all modern computers use at least introduced in 1987 ISO-8859 standard and can therefore be easily processed and represent at least the non-breaking space U 00 A0. Should also be mentioned the narrow spaces ( ▕ ▏ ) that also displays the Internet Explorer properly and the better is with justified text formatting than the narrow no-break space ().

Application Examples

  • Between Title and name of a person: " Prof. Dr. Hausen example " - Prof. Dr. Hausen example (or )
  • Between numerical value and unit of measure: " 44 mm " - 44 mm.
  • In abbreviations: " For B. "- eg This should actually be more a narrow non-breaking space ( " eg" - for example ) are. For compatibility reasons, however, generally does not it, because this character is not supported by all web browsers and fonts. Frequently, the space is instead be omitted altogether, but this is not correct.
  • Other examples: St. Ulrich, St. Afra, Ludwig II, Version 3, 14th Century, June 30, B 17, A 96

Representation on computer systems

Ctrl ⇧ Shift Spacebar ( from OOo 3)

Mod3 ↹, spacebar Leertaste3

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