"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@y...> wrote in message
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> Anthony's explanation is right, but I have doubts about 127.
>

Yeah it's not a good solution but it does work.

> On the other side, if you are trying to generate HTML, then you don't need
> the non-breaking space, you can use entities.
> So <TD>&amp;#160;</TD> should do.
> Then you will get a Big5 html file with &#160; where you need it, and the
> browser will take care from there.
>
> And even better use &nbsp;: <TD>&amp;nbsp;</TD>
>

Have you tried this?  I think you will find that it doesn't.  The & a m p ;
will be left as it is since so the user will see & nbsp; instead of just a
space.
You might get that to work if you specified the output method to be be text
but that will probably introduce more problems that it's worth.

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