How do you keep WordPress from removing the non-breaking space?

[spherman]

I am hoping you guys have a simple solution for me. I would really appreciate it.

I am doing a lot of porting existing sites to be wordpress sites and I have notived that every time there is a non-breaking space   it removes it fron the code when it is saved or when switching back and forth between visual and text mode.

I have combed google for a solution and come up with nothing but other people complaining about the same thing with no real solution.

Thoughts anyone?

[SergeyBiryukov]

every time there is a non-breaking space   it removes it fron the code when it is saved or when switching back and forth between visual and text mode.

If you enter   in Text editor and save the post without switching to Visual editor, the non-breaking space will be preserved.

If you don't want to lose your non-breaking spaces by accidentally switching to Visual editor, the only workaround is to disable the Visual editor.

Closing as a duplicate of #2420.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Duplicate of #2420.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Actually, this seems to work too:

function allow_nbsp_in_tinymce( $mceInit ) {
	$mceInit['entities'] = '160,nbsp,38,amp,60,lt,62,gt';	
	return $mceInit;
}
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'allow_nbsp_in_tinymce' );

[SergeyBiryukov]

The entities element was originally added in [4080].

Not sure why   is not there, we could probably add it.

[spherman]

Bless you!! I went searching for an answer to this once again and found your response. It worked!!!!

[jeremyclarke]

+1 for the importance of this issue. Our French authors are driven mad by the inability to add non-breaking spaces, it's like forcing them to use incorrect grammar (they have a lot of punctuation with spaces before the text like "« Salut Jeanne !").

Please lets make WP allow the proper usage of NBSP, especially since it's already allowed as a hack to fake empty paragraphs (it seems this bug doesn't affect NBSP that are on their own line, which is semantically crazy).

I tested the patch and it fixed the problem for me. Hopefully this can get into the next version of WP.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #26842

[MikeHansenMe]

Refreshed patch

[azaozz]

To clarify: the non-breaking spaces are not removed by TinyMCE. They are converted to the U+00A0 (UTF-8) character. This is not the default behavior but has been set in WordPress since version 2.

It is possible to stop converting the non-breaking spaces, but that will need changes in several other functions, mainly in wpautop and wptexturize, see #26842.

This ticket seems close enough to #26842 to close as a duplicate.