Irene Vatton wrote: > On Friday 20 October 2006 09:07, Robin Whittle wrote: > > > On Debian with the distributed binary of the latest version 9.52, > > I find that the view source frequently displays non-breaking > > spaces as " " rather than the light blue tilde '~' it normally > > uses. > > It displays when the encoding is set to ASCII. OK - I understand this now, it is not a bug. Here is my exploration with the 9.52 CVS version I compiled yesterday on Debian. I have Preferences > General > Keep multiple spaces turned on. I create a new XHTML Transitional document, with the default charset (a drop-down list in the new file dialogue) encoding "iso-8859-1". I write "xxxx yyyy" into it, save it as New.html and open it again. The file begins: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> In source view, non-breaking spaces are displayed as light blue tildes. In the file itself, non-breaking spaces are stored as single bytes of hex A0. I hadn't realised that non-breaking spaces could be stored as this single byte. I had always seen the 6 byte " " form, but looking at page 96 of the HTML 4.01 specification I see this is so. Repeating the exercise, I select "us-ascii" for the charset. The non-breaking spaces are displayed as " " and saved in the file in this 6 byte form. - RobinReceived on Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:33:23 UTC
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