• SPACE – '󠀠 ' – sometimes considered a control code
  • NO-BREAK SPACE – '󠀠 ' – commonly abbreviated as NBSP
  • ETHIOPIC WORDSPACE – '፡'
  • OGHAM SPACE MARK – ' ' – glyph is blank in “stemless” style fonts
  • EN QUAD – ' '
  • EM QUAD – ' ' – mutton quad
  • EN SPACE – ' ' – nut; half an em
  • EM SPACE – ' ' – mutton; nominally, a space equal to the type size in points;may scale by the condensation factor of a font
  • THREE-PER-EM SPACE – ' ' – thick space
  • FOUR-PER-EM SPACE – ' ' – mid space
  • SIX-PER-EM SPACE – ' ' – in computer typography sometimes equated to thin space
  • FIGURE SPACE – ' ' – space equal to tabular width of a font; this is equivalent to the digit width of fonts with fixed-width digits
  • PUNCTUATION SPACE – ' ' – space equal to narrow punctuation of a font
  • THIN SPACE – ' ' – a fifth of an em (or sometimes a sixth)
  • HAIR SPACE – ' ' – thinner than a thin space; in traditional typography, the thinnest space available
  • ZERO WIDTH SPACE – '' – commonly abbreviated ZWSP; this character is intended for invisible word separation and for line break control; it has no width, but its presence between two characters does not prevent increased letter spacing in justification
  • NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE – ' ' – commonly abbreviated NNBSP; a narrow form of a no-break space, typically the width of a thin space or a mid space
  • MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE – ' ' – abbreviated MMSP; four-eighteenths of an em
  • SYMBOL FOR SPACE – '␠'
  • BLANK SYMBOL – '␢' – graphic for space
  • OPEN BOX – '␣' – graphic for space
  • IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE – ' '
  • IDEOGRAPHIC HALF FILL SPACE – '〿' – visual indicator of a screen space for half of an ideograph
  • ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE – '' – BOM, ZWNBSP; may be used to detect byte order by contrast with the noncharacter code point U+FFFE; use as an indication of non-breaking is deprecated; see WORD JOINER instead
  • TAG SPACE – '󠀠'

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  • space_characters.txt
  • Last modified: 2018-05-08 10:18
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