Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 09/07/06 21:16

Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> scripsit:

> If you are looking for HTML entities to replace spaces with (no idea
> why one would wanna do that):
> en space : &ensp; &#8194;
> em space : &emsp; &#8195;
> thin space : &thinsp; &#8201;

I can imagine reasons for wanting specific amount of spacing at the
character level, but that doesn't make the fixed-width spaces work; see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html

> I think the &ensp; is the one similar to a single press on the space
> bar.

No, &ensp; is a fixed-width space. If it's width happens to coincide with
the width of a normal space, that's just incidental.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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