two-spaces after period - nbsp goes in the wrong place

[jaddle]

When you enter two spaces (as, right or wrong, many people do after a period) in the visual editor, wordpress converts it to 'space + unicode_nbsp'. This mostly works fine, except that if the next sentence starts a newline, it will be indented by one space. The nbsp is 'attached' to the following sentence, in other words.

A better solution would be to put the nbsp BEFORE the normal space, so that the nbsp would be attached to the period. The problem would still occur with right or full-justified text, but this is less common than left-justified text.

Of course, many people will say that the real solution is to not (ab)use nbsp in this way, and to ignore double-spaces just like html normally would. I personally agree with this wholeheartedly, but some people are very attached to their double-spaces after sentences...

I've attached an html files that demonstrates the html that wordpress produces. Try opening it and then resizing your browser window until "There they go" moves to a second line, and you will see that it is indented slightly.

[jaddle]

Illustrating wrapping issues with nbsp

[thee17]

I think this is a TinyMCE issue any should probably be better reported to ​http://www.tinyMCE.com/develop/bugtracker.php

[jaddle]

Interesting - I just tried the tinyMCE at ​http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php and it DID put the nbsp first, followed by the normal one. That uses tinyMCE 3.4.7, and the latest wordpress (3.3.1) has 3.4.2, I believe, so maybe it is something that has been fixed. I don't see anything in the tinyMCE changelog or bug tracker that describes that change.

I've never used tinyMCE outside of wordpress though, so I haven't done a very thorough search on the site.

Is it possible to just drop the new version of tinyMCE into an existing wordpress to try it out?

[azaozz]

In [19830]:

Update TinyMCE to 3.4.8, fixes #19969, fixes #19936, fixes #19741