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Thanks, Andrew Nevins, for adding this to the Request and Feedback list. I hope this is given attention soon. It is actually more severe, than I reported, because there are programs that suppress (some) nbsps, including (some) versions of Firefox (on Windows) and even my pdf printer in MSWord (for Mac) does it (after copying from WordPress’ post preview to Word), which results in words being collated/combined.

I get your point and agree to some extent, that the solution to this problem lies in avoiding the WordPress editor, compose in a reasonable editor and copy/paste to WordPress when done. For one part, this is a good idea anyway, because WordPress’ smartness will abolish all double spaces, accidental multiple spaces as well as fully intended multiple spaces, as you paste — it just sometimes does things it is simply not at all supposed to do. Well, it better do so (really?) because thereby it avoids the automatic creation of unwanted non-breaking spaces.

Besides the perhaps slightly justified argument that the WordPress editor should be there for something, apart from causing problems, here is the downer: Although most of the problems with unwanted non-breaking spaces can be avoided by composing elsewhere and pasting to WordPress, this isn’t the case for all of them. Regular spaces before bold text or hyperlinks, for instance, are replaced with non-breaking spaces as the text is pasted into WordPress.

If I want a non-breaking space, dear programmers, I insert a non-breaking space myself and you, programmers, please quit interfering with what I want, quit believing you know better what to do than your users. Thanks! This is not really an item for discussion. It simply needs to fixed!