On 04/11/2023 08:43, Ralph Fox wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 07:52:02 +0000, MikeS wrote:
>> On 03/11/2023 21:51, Ralph Fox wrote:
>>> On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 18:57:47 +0000, MikeS wrote:
>>>> On 03/11/2023 17:44, Ralph Fox wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:09:54 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
>>>>>> Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I post plain text diagrams (like the example below), I _always_
>>>>>>> replace ASCII spaces in the diagram with non-breaking spaces so that
>>>>>>> word-wrap will not damage the diagram. This is a legitimate use of
>>>>>>> the non-breaking space in plain text posts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just curious, how do you draw these diagrams?
>>>>>
>>>>> By hand in Notepad++.
>>>>>
>>>> How?
>>>> Its not one of the entries in the ASCII character panel.
>>>
>>> All of the characters in that diagram are characters on my keyboard,
>>> except for two: U+00A6 BROKEN BAR (‘¦’) and U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE.
>>> For ‘¦’ I first typed ‘|’ and then did a global search and replace.
>>> For NBSP I first typed a space and then did a global search and
>>> replace.
>>>
>>>
>> Tried that and it simply replaced each space with U+00A0 (as text).
>> Same with UTF-8 or ANSI encoding.
>
> Do not enter the literal US-ASCII string “U+00A0” in the Notepad++
> ‘Replace with’ box.
>
> Here are two ways to enter a NBSP character in the Notepad++ ‘Replace
> with’ box:
>
> 1) [In Windows] Type Alt+0160 in the ‘Replace with’ box. That is,
> hold down the Alt key and while holding it down type the four
> digits “0160” on the _numeric_ _keypad_.
> See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code#List_of_codes>.
>
> 2) On the ‘Replace’ dialog under ‘Search mode’, select the option
> ‘Extended (\n, \r, \t, \0, \x...)’. Then enter the four
> characters “\xA0” in the ‘Replace with’ box.
> See ‘Extended Mode’ in the Notepad++ online manual at
> <https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#extended-search-mode>.
>
I don't have a numeric keypad but option (2) worked. Thanks.