<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - "NO-BREAK SPACE" (U+00A0) interpreted as fixed-width space" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652#c25">Comment # 25</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - "NO-BREAK SPACE" (U+00A0) interpreted as fixed-width space" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652">bug 41652</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:infinitiv2@gmail.com" title="Fimicjus <infinitiv2@gmail.com>"> Fimicjus</a> <pre>(In reply to rysson from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=41652#c22">comment #22</a>) > 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: > <a href="http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/">http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/</a> > 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: <a href="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">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</a></pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>