Non-breaking space, the Glossary

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1. 89 relations: Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, Alt code, AltGr key, AmigaOS, AutoCAD, Byte order mark, Code page, Code page 437, Code page 850, Code page 851, Code page 852, Code page 853, Code page 855, Code page 856, Code page 857, Code page 859, Code page 860, Code page 861, Code page 862, Code page 863, Code page 864, Code page 865, Code page 866, Code page 867, Code page 869, Compose key, Control key, CSC – IT Center for Science, CSS, Cut, copy, and paste, DOS, EBCDIC, Emacs, French language, German language, GNU Project, HP Roman, HTML, International System of Units, ISO/IEC 8859, Keyboard layout, Keyboard shortcut, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, LaTeX, LibreOffice, Line wrap and word wrap, Linux, ... Expand index (39 more) »

2. Control characters
3. Unicode formatting code points
4. Whitespace

Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe.

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Adobe FrameMaker

Adobe FrameMaker is a document processor designed for writing and editing large or complex documents, including structured documents.

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Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout designing software application produced by Adobe and first released in 1999.

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Alt code

On personal computers with numeric keypads that use Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows, many characters that do not have a dedicated key combination on the keyboard may nevertheless be entered using the Alt code (the Alt numpad input method).

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AltGr key

AltGr (also Alt Graph) is a modifier key found on many computer keyboards (rather than a second Alt key found on US keyboards).

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AmigaOS

AmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers.

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AutoCAD

AutoCAD is a 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software application developed by Autodesk.

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Byte order mark

The byte-order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code,, whose appearance as a magic number at the start of a text stream can signal several things to a program reading the text.

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Code page

In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers.

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Code page 437

Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer).

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Code page 850

Code page 850 (CCSID 850) (also known as CP 850, IBM 00850, OEM 850, DOS Latin 1) is a code page used under DOS operating systems in Western Europe.

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Code page 851

Code page 851 (CCSID 851) (CP 851, IBM 851, OEM 851) is a code page used under DOS to write Greek language although it lacks the letters Ϊ and Ϋ.

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Code page 852

Code page 852 (CCSID 852) (also known as CP 852, IBM 00852, OEM 852 (Latin II), MS-DOS Latin 2) is a code page used under DOS to write Central European languages that use Latin script (such as Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian or Slovene).

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Code page 853

Code page 853 (CCSID 853) (also known as CP 853 or IBM 00853) is a code page used under DOS to write Turkish, Maltese, and Esperanto.

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Code page 855

Code page 855 (CCSID 855) (also known as CP 855, IBM 00855, OEM 855, MS-DOS Cyrillic) is a code page used under DOS to write Cyrillic script.

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Code page 856

Code page 856 (CCSID 856) (also known as CP 856 and IBM 00856), is a code page used under DOS for Hebrew in Israel.

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Code page 857

Code page 857 (CCSID 857) (also known as CP 857, IBM 00857, and OEM 857, MS-DOS Turkish) is a code page used under DOS in Turkey to write Turkish.

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Code page 859

Code page 859 (CCSID 859) (also known as CP 859 and IBM 00859) is a code page used under DOS to write Western European languages.

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Code page 860

Code page 860 (CCSID 860) (also known as CP 860, IBM 00860, OEM 860, DOS Portuguese) is a code page used under DOS in Portugal to write Portuguese and it is also suitable to write Spanish and Italian.

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Code page 861

Code page 861 (CCSID 861) (also known as CP 861, IBM 00861, OEM 861, DOS Icelandic) is a code page used under DOS in Iceland to write the Icelandic language (as well as other Nordic languages).

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Code page 862

Code page 862 (CCSID 862) (also known as CP 862, IBM 00862, OEM 862 (Hebrew), MS-DOS Hebrew) is a code page used under DOS in Israel for Hebrew.

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Code page 863

Code page 863 (CCSID 863) (also known as CP 863, IBM 00863, OEM 863, MS-DOS French Canada) is a code page used under DOS in Canada to write French (mainly in Quebec) although it lacks the letters Æ, æ, Œ, œ, Ÿ and ÿ.

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Code page 864

Code page 864 (CCSID 864) (also known as CP 864, IBM 00864) is a code page used to write Arabic in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.

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Code page 865

Code page 865 (CCSID 865) (also known as CP 865, IBM 00865, OEM 865, DOS Nordic) is a code page used under DOS in Denmark and Norway to write Nordic languages (except Icelandic, for which code page 861 is used).

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Code page 866

Code page 866 (CCSID 866) (CP 866, "DOS Cyrillic Russian") is a code page used under DOS and OS/2 in Russia to write Cyrillic script.

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Code page 867

Code page 867 (CCSID 867) is a Hebrew 8-bit code page defined by IBM in 1998.

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Code page 869

Code page 869 (CCSID 869) (CP 869, IBM 869, OEM 869) is a code page used under DOS to write Greek and may also be used to get Greek letters for other uses such as math.

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Compose key

A compose key (sometimes called multi key) is a key on a computer keyboard that indicates that the following (usually 2 or more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a precomposed character or a symbol.

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Control key

In computing, a Control key is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation (for example, C).

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CSC – IT Center for Science

CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd. (also known as Finnish IT Center for Science, natively) provides IT support and modeling, computing and information services for academia, research institutes and companies in Finland.

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CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for specifying the presentation and styling of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML).

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Cut, copy, and paste

Cut, copy, and paste are essential commands of modern human–computer interaction and user interface design.

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DOS

DOS is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.

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EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) is an eight-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems.

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Emacs

Emacs, originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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GNU Project

The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983.

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HP Roman

In computing HP Roman is a family of character sets consisting of HP Roman Extension, HP Roman-8, HP Roman-9 and several variants.

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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

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International System of Units

The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.

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ISO/IEC 8859

ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings.

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Keyboard layout

A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard.

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Keyboard shortcut

In computing, a keyboard shortcut also known as hotkey is a series of one or several keys to quickly invoke a software program or perform a preprogrammed action.

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KOI8-R

KOI8-R (RFC 1489) is an 8-bit character encoding, derived from the KOI-8 encoding by the programmer Andrei Chernov in 1993 and designed to cover Russian, which uses a Cyrillic alphabet.

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KOI8-U

KOI8-U (RFC 2319) is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover Ukrainian, which uses a Cyrillic alphabet.

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LaTeX

LaTeX (or, often stylized with vertically offset letters) is a software system for typesetting documents.

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LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF).

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Line wrap and word wrap

Line breaking, also known as word wrapping, is breaking a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a page, window or other display area.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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List of XML and HTML character entity references

In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.

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Lotus International Character Set

The Lotus International Character Set (LICS) is a proprietary single-byte character encoding introduced in 1985 by Lotus Development Corporation.

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LyX

LyX (styled as LYX; pronounced) is an open source, graphical user interface document processor based on the LaTeX typesetting system.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

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Monospaced font

A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space.

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OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite.

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Option key

The Option key,, is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards.

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Page break

A page break is a marker in an electronic document that tells the document interpreter that the content which follows is part of a new page. Non-breaking space and page break are control characters.

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Plain text

In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.

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Punctuation

Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood.

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Python (programming language)

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.

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Shift key

The Shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters.

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Space bar

The space bar is on the bottom center of the keyboard The space bar, spacebar, blank, or space key, is a key on a typewriter or alphanumeric keyboard in the form of a horizontal bar in the lowermost row, significantly wider than all other keys. Non-breaking space and space bar are whitespace.

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Standard Generalized Markup Language

The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986) is a standard for defining generalized markup languages for documents.

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Style guide

A style guide is a set of standards for the writing, formatting, and design of documents.

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TeX

TeX (see below), stylized within the system as, is a typesetting program which was designed and written by computer scientist and Stanford University professor Donald Knuth and first released in 1978.

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Thin space

In typography, a thin space is a space character whose width is usually or of an em. Non-breaking space and thin space are whitespace.

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Typeface

A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.

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Typesetting

Typesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical ''type'' (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters (letters and other symbols).

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Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.

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Unicode input

Unicode input is the insertion of a specific Unicode character on a computer by a user; it is a common way to input characters not directly supported by a physical keyboard.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Vim (text editor)

Vim ("Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em. It's written with a capital, since it's a name, again like Jim." vi improved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program.

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Whitespace character

A whitespace character is a character data element that represents white space when text is rendered for display by a computer. Non-breaking space and whitespace character are whitespace.

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Windows code page

Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s.

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Windows-1250

Windows-1250 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to represent texts in Central European and Eastern European languages that use the Latin script.

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Windows-1251

Windows-1251 is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic, Macedonian and other languages.

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Windows-1252

Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (Windows code page 1252) is a legacy single-byte character encoding that is used by default (as the "ANSI code page") in Microsoft Windows throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.

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Windows-1253

Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 or abbreviated as cp1253, is a Microsoft Windows code page used to write modern Greek.

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Windows-1254

Windows-1254 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows (and for the web), to write Turkish that it was designed for (and the vast majority of users use it for that language, even though it can also be used for some other languages).

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Windows-1255

Windows-1255 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to write Hebrew.

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Windows-1256

Windows-1256 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to write Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script, such as Persian and Urdu.

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Windows-1257

Windows-1257 (Windows Baltic) is an 8-bit, single-byte extended ASCII code page used to support the Estonian (which also used in Windows-1252), Latvian and Lithuanian languages under Microsoft Windows.

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Windows-1258

Windows-1258 is a code page used in Microsoft Windows to represent Vietnamese texts.

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Word processor

A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.

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WordPerfect

WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

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See also

Control characters

• ASA carriage control characters
• Acknowledgement (data networks)
• Arabic letter mark
• Backspace
• Bell character
• Block check character
• C0 and C1 control codes
• Cancel character
• Caret notation
• Carriage return
• Combining grapheme joiner
• Control character
• Delete character
• Eight Ones
• End-of-Text character
• End-of-Transmission character
• End-of-Transmission-Block character
• Enquiry character
• Escape character
• Escape sequence
• Escape sequences in C
• Figure space
• Left-to-right mark
• Line starve
• Newline
• Non-breaking space
• Null character
• Page break
• Right-to-left mark
• Shift Out and Shift In characters
• Soft hyphen
• Space (punctuation)
• Substitute character
• Syriac Abbreviation Mark
• Tab key
• Word joiner
• Zero-width joiner
• Zero-width non-joiner
• Zero-width space

Unicode formatting code points

• Arabic letter mark
• Dotted circle
• Figure space
• Left-to-right mark
• Non-breaking space
• Right-to-left mark
• Soft hyphen
• Word joiner
• Zero-width joiner
• Zero-width non-joiner
• Zero-width space

Whitespace

• Carriage return
• Counter (typography)
• Figure space
• Kerning
• Leading
• Letter spacing
• Line starve
• Newline
• Non-breaking space
• Quad (typography)
• Sentence spacing
• Soft hyphen
• Space (punctuation)
• Space bar
• Tab key
• Thin space
• Whitespace (programming language)
• Whitespace character
• Word spacing
• Zero-width space

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space

Also known as &NonBreakingSpace,  , 00A0, Fixed space, Hard space, Incompressible space, NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE, NBSP, Narrow non-breaking space, Nbsp;, No-Break Space, NoBreak, Non breakable space, Non breaking space, Non-break space, Non-breakable space, Non-breaking, Non-breaking spaces, Non-printing blank, Non-printing space, Nonbreaking space, Required space, Soft space, U+00A0, U+202F, U00A0, Unbreakable space, .

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