It's probably best left optional since the entire
idea of having non-breaking spaces, is, not surprisingly,
to prevent the breakage of something. Although admittedly
overused on the Web at large, the principle is to provide
a visual space between two 'words' which aren't meant to
be separated. As such, something like 'Perl Monks'
should not be treated as two words, but rather, as a
single word. Including 0xA0 in \s would defeat the entire
purpose of having in the first place.
Instead, you could build methods into HTML::Message to
strip out these invisible buggers, which is really only
a single tr/\xA0/\x20/ operation anyway.
You might find that 0xA0 isn't the only "invisible"
character out there either, as it depends on the font that
you are using, and will likely vary from UNIX to Windows
to Macintosh. Sometimes if the font doesn't have a defined
character for that position, it draws nothing, a zero width
non-character that is there, but not.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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