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I would like to see a non-space-break entity. Consider it the inverse of the non-break-space entity. Basically it provides a hint to the render engine that a line break may be inserted if necessary. Consider the text "something/anotherthing" if the space to render the tag is narrower than the text it will be rendered as per overflow. now, consider &nspb; (non space break) entity. "something/&nspb;anotherthing" would normally render as "something/anotherthing" but in cases where the text is too wide to fit in the space the render engine can insert a space after the slash effectively rendering it as if it were written: "something/ anotherthing"
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Very close and I can see using that is several places, thank you for pointing it out. But what I was looking for was a break with no other notation (no hyphen) In my previous example "something/­anotherthing" would render as something/- anotherthing what I am looking for is something/ anotherthing
(In reply to comment #2) > Very close and I can see using that is several places, thank you for > pointing it out. But what I was looking for was a break with no other > notation (no hyphen) In my previous example In that case you want U+200B zero width space (HTML: ​).
Exactly what I was looking for