On Monday 12 August 2002 03:56, Toby Bartels wrote:
Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
But does look nasty in the source - do you think it would put people off from editing?
Since Wikipedia web pages are in Latin-1, an alternative would be to type in the 8-bit character directly: " ".
List: What are the pros and cons of this approach?
If the browser is set to UTF-8, which is necessary to view pages that have characters beyond Latin-1, and the nbsp is preceded by an accented letter (C0-FF), the browser will display them as one character. I don't know what it will do if it sees an A0 by itself.
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