- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 06:04:58 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 06:28a -0500 01/24/00, Arjun Ray wrote: >On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Mike Brown wrote: > > In HTML, is always ISO-8859-1 character number 160, i.e. a > > non-breaking space ... but   is simply character number 160 in the > > character set of the document encoding, > >Oops. Not at all. Absolutely not. The encoding has absolutely nothing, >repeat **NOTHING** to do with this. Buggy browsers notwithstanding. ;) There are browsers which get this wrong, and display the wrong character for   -- but they never get wrong. Back in the early days I used   because Lynx didn't yet support yet it did support  , but once Lynx supported I switched to using that because it was more reliable.
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