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<blockquote class='quote-from-book'> <p><span class='ic'>“</span>Names such as W.B. Yeats and J.C.L. Prillwitz need hair spaces, thin spaces or no spaces at all after the intermediary periods <span class='bracket'>[</span>full stops<span class='bracket'>]</span>. A normal word space follows the <em>last</em> period in the string.”</p>
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<p>Hair spaces and thin spaces are two of the many <a href="http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/general_punctuation.html" title="General Punctuation - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers">space characters available in Unicode</a>. Even if the character itself isn’t included in the current font, Unicode-aware browsers will display a good approximation. Here’s how to use hair spaces and thin spaces, respectively:</p>
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<pre><code>W.&#8202;B. Yeats
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J.&#8201;C.&#8201;L. Prillwitz</code></pre>
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<p>Which renders as W. B. Yeats and J. C. L. Prillwitz. Unfortunately some browsers which are less Unicode-aware will show square placeholder symbols instead of the required spaces, so until support improves, no space at all is probably the way to go in this instance.</p> |