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Whitespace, or white space, is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs, and new lines which create blank space between text, either horizontally or vertically.

Whitespace, or white space, is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs, and new lines which create blank (or white, originally referring to the background color behind it) space between text, either horizontally or vertically. White space is not represented by a visual character or symbol, but in most cases does occupy space on the page.

Whitespace Characters

The following characters are all defined as being whitespace.

  • U+0009 - Horizontal Tab
  • U+000A - Line Feed
  • U+000B - Vertical Tab
  • U+000C - Form Feed
  • U+000D - Carriage Return
  • U+0020 - Space
  • U+0085 - Next Line
  • U+00A0 - Non-Breaking Space
  • U+1680 - Ogham Space Mark
  • U+180E - Mongolian Vowel Separator
  • U+2000 - EN Quad
  • U+2001 - EM Quad
  • U+2002 - EN Space
  • U+2003 - EM Space
  • U+2004 - Three-per-EM Space
  • U+2005 - Four-per-EM Space
  • U+2006 - Six-per-EM Space
  • U+2007 - Figure Space
  • U+2008 - Punctuation Space
  • U+2009 - Thin Space
  • U+200A - Hair Space
  • U+2028 - Line Separator
  • U+2029 - Paragraph Separator
  • U+202F - Narrow Non-Breaking Space
  • U+205F - Medium Mathematical Space
  • U+3000 - Ideographic Space
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Why doesn't c++ compiler output the text on the next line while it does when putting spaces in between?

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Subversion whitespace-removal commit hook

Jeff Atwood wrote about whitespace and suggested creating commit hook which removes trailing whitespace at the ends of lines and files. I've searched, but I haven't found a clear example of using a pre-commit hook to modify files like this. Do you…
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View whitespace in VS2008

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%20 in filename, browser sees whitespaces. How to avoid that?

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Whitespaces around PHP tags causing ajax calls to have extra whitespaces

I have a small problem that has been bugging me for quite some time now, but I can't seem to solve it myself. I googled it and didn't really find anything useful. I thought, maybe someone else came across this problem, or will come across it in the…
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Ruby: Remove invisible characters after converting string to UTF-8

I am working with text coming from this website with windows-1252 charset. Converting the text to UTF-8 was done using force_encoding, but the text still contains whitespace that I can't get rid of. The whitespace cannot be removed using…
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What is this strange whitespace in Sublime Text?

In Sublime Text 2, some of my whitespace behaves strangely. For example, I select the contents of a script (as shown in the screenshot below), and do Shift + Tab (to reduce indentation) it only works on the lines with normal spacing, resulting in my…
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Whitespace in pyplot legend entry?

I want to add some spacing between the end of the legend entry and the legend border. I've tried using the arguments for pyplot.legend but I haven't found a combination that works. Here's a minimal working example: import matplotlib.pyplot as…
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C++ output duplicating lines when there is a '\n'

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How many non-printing characters are in common use?

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split() a String to a Stringarray, and not getting a blank at [0]

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Fortran: odd space-padding string behavior when opening files

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Escaping whitespace within nested shell/perl scripts

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Wordpress extra spaces breaks layout

I am creating and developing a custom Wordpress theme and I am struggling with one issue, which is making me crazy and I can't find any fix and can't figure out, what I am doing wrong... There is some extra spaces added in output which breaks the…
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How to ignore whitespaces and new line feeds while parsing a XML file

how can I ignore whitespaces while parsing a XML file. It always calls the characters(...) method again, while after the end element a '\n' or '\r' is following, so it calls this method twice, instead of only once.
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