No longer possible to insert non-breakable spaces like in FCKeditor

[anrikun]

Since CKEditor, it is not possible to insert non-breakable spaces anymore like it used to be in FCKeditor. In FCKeditor, it was possible to add a non-breakable space pressing Shift + Space or Alt + 0160. In CKEditor, this is not possible any longer. I consider this as a bug as it is a regression.

[Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo]

Only Shift + Space works in FCKeditor, not Alt+0160

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Milestone CKEditor 3.x deleted

[Wiktor Walc]

#6433 was marked as dup.

[Wiktor Walc]

#7136 might be causing some problems while implementing this feature (at least when inserting the non-breaking space while typing, not in the middle of a text that already exists).

[anrikun]

Bumping this with a new information:

As a workaround, I have tried to add   as a special character available through the specialchar plugin.

It doesn't work either: CKEditor adds a normal space instead of   I will add a separate issue about this too.

Edit: the separate issue is #8236

[Jakub Ś]

#8766 was marked as duplicate.

[Jakub Ś]

Just a note: This is reproducible in all browsers.

Webkit and Opera might give the false impression that it is working (look at comment 2 in #8236) but the behavior is for SPACE not for SHIFT+SPACE.

[Geoff M]

Bump... When are they putting back this essential feature? If I write "100 km" or "10 000" in a text I do not want "100" at the end of one line and "km" at the beginning of the next, they need to stick together. It's even worse when numbers are cut in two. Non-breaking spaces are essential in any text-rendering software, I don't know what they were thinking in removing this feature!

[George Tudosi]

I'm using a “Typography keyboard layout” allowing to enter arbitrary Unicode characters directly. So I'm able to use non-breaking space U+00A0 in any software, but CKEditor silently replaces it by ordinary space.

Please fix it. If I enter a special character, I know exactly what and why I'm doing, and I'd like it to work as desired.

[Jakub Ś]

Related issues #13733 and #3015.

[Jakub Ś]

From what I have checked it is possible to add such shortcut without problems. Although there is no such feature by default, there is no problem in adding it with the help of CKEditor API.

var editor = CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1', { });
editor.on( 'pluginsLoaded', function( evt )
{	
  CKEDITOR.config.specialChars.unshift( [' '] );
		
  editor.on( 'contentDom', function( e )
  {
      var editable = editor.editable();
      var doc = editor.document;					
      editable.attachListener( doc, 'keydown', function( event ){
        if(event.data.getKeystroke() === (CKEDITOR.SHIFT+32)){
          editor.insertHtml( ' ' );
          event.data.preventDefault();
        }
      });	
  });
});