Find non-breaking space with regular expression

[Winfried Reng]

Hi,

This is just for info, if anyone else needs to find non-breaking spaces with regular expressions.

"\ " or \u00A0 or \s does not work.

And it took me half an hour to find out that I have to use this notation:

\x11 (in the online help in the appendix in Windows character sets; not described in the section about Find and Regular expressions)

Characters in Unicode notation are generally not found with regular expressions.

Best regards

Winfried

[frameexpert · Accepted solution]

Thanks Winfried. You can use this as substitute for \s in FrameMaker regular expressions:

[\x08-\x14\x20]+

[Winfried Reng]

Rick, thank you very much! I will remember this info!

[Bob_Niland]

Perhaps we separately need some discussion of how FM renders and publishes non-breaking spaces.

\x11 and \u00a0 are not, today, the same thing.

\x11 gets honored during FM edit and text layout, gets rendered as a plain U+0020 space to PDF (based on a test), and based on this thread that appeared the same day, may get rendered as   to HTML.

\u00a0 (U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE), based on a casual test, is not honored for FM edit/layout, and I haven't tested how it renders to PDF or HTML.