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It would be great if there were some code for non-breaking spaces (e.g. "[nbsp]" or " ") that would reappear when editing a sentence or any other editable piece of text.
On Mac OS X, pressing space while holding ⌥ (option/alt key) produces a non-breakable space.
It's no problem to produce a non-breaking space (I do so by pressing Alt + 255). The problem is that when editing a sentence all previously entered non-breaking spaces disappear and are replaced by normal spaces. It would help if this no longer happened, and if non-breaking spaces were distinguishable from normal ones when editing, but of course not when displaying sentences. For example, they could be represented as "[nbsp]". If they could also be entered that way (in addition to the other methods), that might make it easier for members to use them.
When I edit a sentence that includes non-breaking spaces, they are not replaced by normal spaces. I think Tatoeba preserves spaces correctly. Note that however, Firefox replaces non-breaking spaces by normal ones when you copy and paste them: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sh....cgi?id=359303 This causes many troubles to people who want to figure out the type of spaces that are displayed.
Would it be possible to make non-breaking spaces somehow visible in the editing window?
I’m not very sure, but it sounds quite difficult to me to make them visible while editing the sentence. Making them visible while *not* editing sounds more doable however.