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Feature request: Easily work with non-breaking spaces in VisualEditor
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Hello,

This is a feature request.

I'd like to propose that a non-breaking space (Unicode: U+00A0) in VisualEditor:

  • Can be entered with Ctrl+Shift+Space.
  • Is displayed with the degree symbol (°, U+00B0).
  • Gets converted to   in wikitext.

This is the standard as provided in Microsoft Word and elsewhere.

The rationale is to allow for easy work with non-breaking spaces as required with units of measurements, acronyms, and elsewhere; to prevent the text from flowing over to the next line in inappropriate places.

Thank you for your attention and help regarding this.

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TadejM created this task.Feb 6 2021, 10:58 PM
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TadejM renamed this task from Convert Unicode nonbreaking space in VisualEditor to   to Feature request: Easy work with non-breaking spaces in VisualEditor.Feb 6 2021, 11:00 PM
TadejM added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-UnicodeConverter.Feb 6 2021, 11:02 PM
Reedy renamed this task from Feature request: Easy work with non-breaking spaces in VisualEditor to Feature request: Easily work with non-breaking spaces in VisualEditor.Feb 7 2021, 3:18 AM
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matmarex subscribed.Feb 11 2021, 8:16 PM

We've recently done some work related to non-breaking spaces – @TadejM I wonder if you wrote this after reading the note in Tech News, or if it's just a timely coincidence?

(If you'd like to test, please do so on https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/, it's not available on the production Wikimedia wikis yet due to a delay of the deployment train.)

Comparing to your "checklist":

Can be entered with Ctrl+Shift+Space.

Not currently implemented (it can only be entered through the insert symbol menu), but T53045 covers this request.

Is displayed with the degree symbol (°, U+00B0).

Rather than the symbol inspired by Microsoft Word, we went with a grey background inspired by LibreOffice Writer (T96666). It seemed less confusing, considering that we don't have a mode to display non-printing characters, so the symbol/background are always shown.

Gets converted to   in wikitext.

Yep, that works.

TadejM added a comment.Mar 20 2021, 12:38 PM

Hello, Matmarex. It was only a coincidence. Thank you for your feedback. I look forward to these features.

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