[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 41652] "NO-BREAK SPACE" (U+00A0) interpreted as fixed-width space

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652

--- Comment #25 from Fimicjus <infinitiv2 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to rysson from comment #22)
> Hi.
> Web browsers use U+00A0 as non-breaking not-fixed-width space too.
> Also MS Office changed the behavior:
> 
> With the introduction of Word 2013, MS changed the behaviour of the ASCII
> 160 non-breaking space. It now conforms to the CSS space rules. This allows
> the space to expand/contract with justification so that all spaces on a line
> have the same width; the ASCII 160 behaviour could look odd with its
> fixed-width non-breaking spaces in such cases. For fixed-width non-breaking
> spaces you can use one of the other non-breaking space characters (eg Narrow
> No-Break Space: 202F,Alt-x).
> 
> Source:
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/
> distance-between-two-words-with-nonbreaking-space/3f6b3d0d-9ab7-422f-8381-
> 84c9ef06c7cb?auth=1

Well, they seem to change it again, because in Word 2016 the non‐breaking space
have a fixed‐width property again. It stopped commiting to modern standards for
whatever reasson (probably the whining of long‐term users). Source:

Source:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_windows8-mso_2016/nonbreakable-space-justification-in-word-2016/4fa1ad30-004c-454f-9775-a3beaa91c88b

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