RE: (dsssl) Jade keeps translating non-breaking space to a regular space in HTML

[David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Tim said:
>     (define (nbsp)
>       ;; (literal " ")
>       ;; (make formatting-instruction data: " ")
>       ;; (make formatting-instruction data: " ")
>       ;; (literal "\no-break-space;")
>       ;; (literal "\U-00A0;")
>       ;; (literal " ") ;; A
>       (make formatting-instruction data: (string-append "&" "#160;"))
>       )
> 
> In each case but the last two, the resulting file, when viewed via the
> "od" command or in Emacs, has a regular space there, not a
> non-breaking space.  (For the third to work, I defined an entity nbsp
> via
>     <!ENTITY nbsp "\U-00A0;" >
> )
> 
> Except for "A": it produced &#38;#160;, presumably because it saw &#38
> (ampersand) was special and decided to escape it by keeping it an
> entity.
> 
> That last one, though, worked.

This sounds like an encoding problem?
Perhaps specify that the output should be utf-8?

HTH DaveP.



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