What is the difference between No-break Space and Space?

No-break Space is U+00A0 in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Space is U+0020 in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for No-break Space?

The HTML entity for No-break Space (U+00A0) is .

What is the HTML entity for Space?

The HTML entity for Space (U+0020) is .

Are No-break Space and Space the same Unicode character?

No. No-break Space is U+00A0 (decimal 160) and Space is U+0020 (decimal 32). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of No-break Space and Space?

No-break Space (U+00A0) encodes as C2 A0 in UTF-8. Space (U+0020) encodes as 20 in UTF-8.

No-break Space vs Space

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

No-break Space

U+00A0

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Space

U+0020

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Property Comparison

Property	No-break Space	Space
Codepoint	`U+00A0`	`U+0020`
Decimal	`160`	`32`
HTML Entity	` `	` `
HTML Decimal	` `	` `
HTML Hex	` `	` `
UTF-8	`C2 A0`	`20`
UTF-16	`00 A0`	`00 20`
UTF-32	`000000A0`	`00000020`
CSS Escape	`\A0`	`\20`
JS Escape	`\u00A0`	`\u0020`
Python Escape	`\u00A0`	`\u0020`
URL Encoded	`%C2%A0`	`%20`
Category	`Space Separator (Zs)`	`Space Separator (Zs)`
Block	`Latin-1 Supplement`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`CS`	`WS`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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