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Old 09-05-2013, 09:26 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
ETA (again). I could simulate what you see by copying a literal non-breaking-space from the character map into an ANSI 1252 encoded text file. If you can get a hex view you may find those "spaces" are 0xA0 characters (if no hex, trying using Ctrl+Right to jump between words and see if it can't find the start of the second testing).
You are correct. The hex shows c2 a0 20 in the long break and just 20 in the short break. So Word does do something special to preserve the double space. If I put all 20s in place, it collapses as expected.
So, there we go. There's one way an app preserves double spaces after periods in HTML.

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