Thread: regex - issue with spaces?
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Old 12-29-2013, 11:03 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
I like to have two spaces between sentences, especially for foreign (for me) language texts. Currently I achieve this via putting a 'space' followed by a 'nbsp' between sentences.

Some of my colleagues whose first language is not English also like to have double space an the end of sentences in English text. For the same reason as me - it makes reading foreign language texts easier.

If 'nbsp' is banished - because "[its] not part of HTML" - how would I get two spaces between sentences, most (all ?) viewers seem to ignore a second 'space'.

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It only applies to (friendly) Named entities. You can still use their entity-numbered ,ISO-8859-1 versions Again & #160 is a NBSP
just like & #62 is a >

It is just a PITA to have to keep a chart handy
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