NO-BREAK SPACE

Codepoint
U+00A0
Literal Character
 
Name
NO-BREAK SPACE
Sketch
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Decomposition
<noBreak>, SPACE (U+0020)
Control Character
no
Subblock
Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding
c2 a0
UTF-16 byte encoding
00 a0 (big endian)
HTML Entity
&nbsp;
Perl string literal
\x{A0}
Comments
  • commonly abbreviated as NBSP
  • should be the same width as the space 0020
See Also
U+0020: space
U+2007: figure space
U+202F: narrow no-break space
U+2060: word joiner
U+237D: shouldered open box
U+FEFF: zero width no-break space