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I couldn't find any way in the spec to put in a "hard space" which would not removed. E.g {{{"|Row one"}}} vs. {{{"| Row one"}}}
There are many instances where a space is removed by default which a user may want for formatting purposes. There is therefore a clear need for a creole representation of the $nbsp; HTML character.
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-- [[Isonomia]] 2008, Apr, 28
There isn't.
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2008-Apr-28
Logically speaking a "hard space" ({{{&nbsp;}}}) should be an escaped white space {{{"~ "}}}. Obviously this may not be isn't possible which makes a space a bit of a special case alongside a "hard newline" ({{{<br>}}}) which should be:-
{{{"This is a line of text~<uline>
continuation"}}}
OK, so it would appear that a "hard newline" is \\<uline>
Accoding to wikipedia " In Wikitext, the character entity reference &nbsp; often represents NBSP.
In TeX and LaTeX, a tilde (~) is used to denote the hard space."
As someone who can't remember &nbsp even though I use it regularly I would wholeheartedly try to disuade anyone from using &nbsp. ~ would be a sensible proposal, but 10:1 people will not expect ~ to suddenly disappear everytime they put it into the text so I wouldn't support its use.
Other suggestions I have are:-
# {{{ {} }}} "An empty image????"
# {{{ <> }}} "???
# {{{ [] }}} "An empty link .... I'm going to suggest this for internal links"
# {{{ \~ }}} "Almost logical but Not at all practical.
I can't remember ever seeing "<>" being used elsewhere so perhaps as it almost represents a container of space, it is perhaps the most sensible proposal.
-- [[Isonomia]] 2008-Apr-28
The logical and therefore obvious sequence to use is {{{~ }}} that is tilda followed by a space as tilda has the effect of saying "Treat the next special character as a normal character.
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4 28-Apr-2008 23:04 1.455 kB Isonomia to previous | to last Suggest <> or perhaps ~ for  
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2 28-Apr-2008 15:25 0.235 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last Reply
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