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by "Ben Z. Tels" <optimusb(at)stack.nl>

Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 1997 00:47:47 +0100
To:	"Paul Varese" <paul(at)MirrorMedia.com>, <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>
	todo: View Thread, Original

Actually, it is part of the ISO's Latin-1 standard (ISO 8859-1). It is not
ASCII per se.
On the other hand, following the CFG for HTML, &nbsp; is one of the
terminals which may make up a correct HTML document. Therefore, it is HTML.

All browsers I know of support it.

Ben Z. Tels
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Varese <paul(at)MirrorMedia.com>
To: hwg-theory(at)hwg.org <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>
Date: maandag 29 december 1997 0:14
Subject: &nbsp;


>I have already asked this question, but got no response.
>
>Perhaps nobody knows????
>
>Is &nbsp; recognized by all browsers and systems???
>Don't tell me that it is "not correct HTML" because it
>is not HTML, it is a special ASCII character. As long
>as it is equally recognized by all systems and browsers,
>we should be able to use it as a spacer/indent  element.
>I use it for paragraph indents and tested it with Nav 3,
>Nav4, IE3, and IE4 on both Mac and PC platforms.
>It always seems to work for me.

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