Last modified: 2012-04-16 09:15:53 UTC
HTML offers and &nnbsp; (narrow no-breaking space). Wiki offers and   but   allows line breaking. Typographic rules say (in Germany, at least): One has to use a thin space to show tousands and a fixed space to combine value and unit: 123 456 km² Both spaces must be no-breakings. Either   is extended to "no-break". Or &nnbsp; is installed. Thank you!
>HTML offers and &nnbsp; Source? Wikipedia disagrees that &nnbsp; is a real entity in (x)html. >Either   is extended to "no-break". Or &nnbsp; is installed. We just generally offer what html does. Adding our own entities and translating them on the fly seems to be a bad idea because then it'd be confusing as to why &somethingRandom; works when it doesn't in html. Furthermore it'd be extremely confusing to have the parser replace   with a character other then what   represents in html. Note: you can currently type this character using the entities   or   (or by directly typing it in. In firefrox, ctrl+shift+u + 202f (thats a literal plus) types it in. If thats too hard to remember, why not create a template {{nnbsp}} containing the character. I suggest wontfixing this.
Sorry, I misunderstood the de.wikipedia article "Geschütztes Leerzeichen". The abbreviation NNBSP doesn't concern to an html code like I meant. I'ld better avoid a template {{nnbsp}} if wikimedia would contain a general solution. I shall use   or a template further on. Sorry for unnecessary request.
