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Bookmark or Share- What's the difference between " " and - Stack OverflowThe entity produces a non-breaking space, which is used when you don't want an automatic line break at that position. The regular space has the character code 32, while the non-breaking space has the character code 160.
- html - Is " " a replacement of " "? - Stack Overflow is the character entity reference (meant to be easily parseable by humans). is the numeric entity reference (meant to be easily parseable by machines). They are the same except for the fact that the latter does not need another lookup table to find its actual value. The lookup table is called a DTD, by the way.
- javascript regex for whitespace or - Stack OverflowThe unicode representation for the NBSP character is: \u00A0 Combined, looking for any combination of 20 whitespace characters (including tabs, etc.) OR NBSPs in a row (the square brackets denote a 'character class'):
- Are there other whitespace codes like   for half-spaces, em-spaces ...Firefox renders all of the above spaces as the same width, wider than one space in the font, except for nbsp, where it renders as one space and imposes the non-breaking character. A real shame. There are cases where only a character will do, for instance when padding is being controled or passed to something else with constructs like before:
- How can I replace or remove HTML entities like " " using ...I am processing HTML using Python and the BeautifulSoup 4 library and I can't find an obvious way to replace with a space. Instead it seems to be converted to a Unicode non-breaking space character. Am I missing something obvious? What is the best way to replace with a normal space using BeautifulSoup?
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