e.g. via the Alt Numpad input method. (Non-breaking space has code point 255 decimal (FF hex) in codepage 437 and codepage 850 and code point 160 decimal (A0 hex) in codepage 1252.) See also Hyphens in computing, for information about hard and non-breaking hyphens List of XML and HTML character entity references , for applications , a non-spacing break Notes References Control characters Whitespace Unicode formatting code points