NO-BREAK SPACE character

NO-BREAK SPACE
U+00A0
160
 
 
NON-BREAKING SPACE
Zs (Space Separator)
CS (Common Number Separator)
N
0
Latin-1 Supplement
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
 












NO-BREAK SPACE is a space character (of various non-zero widths) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of NO-BREAK SPACE is Common Number Separator (Weak). It belongs to the punctuation marks used with numbers, like then colon sign and the comma sign. Treated like digits when they occur as part of a number and like punctuation the rest of the time..

The Common Separator (CS) bidi class includes characters like the comma and the colon (,:, ;). These separators are treated neutrally but play a key role in the correct formatting of lists, ranges, and other text structures that include punctuation in bidirectional contexts.

Space Separator (Zs) refers to characters that create a space between words, sentences, or other text elements. These include the standard space character and other similar separators used in different scripts.

This character belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block. The Latin-1 Supplement block extends the Basic Latin block by adding additional characters used in Western European languages. This includes letters with diacritics (such as é, ñ, and ö), punctuation marks, and symbols like the Euro sign (€). This block is part of the ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding standard, which was widely used before the adoption of Unicode. These characters are essential for representing languages such as French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, ensuring proper orthography and typographic conventions..