Keyboard Entry Methods
It is rare for national or international standards on keyboard layouts to define an input method for the non-breaking space. An exception is the Finnish multilingual keyboard, accepted as the national standard SFS 5966 in 2008. According to the SFS setting, the non-breaking space can be entered with the key combination AltGr + Space.
Typically, authors of keyboard drivers and application programs (e.g., word processors) have devised their own keyboard shortcuts for the non-breaking space. For example:
| System/application | Entry method |
|---|---|
| Apple Mac OS X | Option+Space |
| X11 | Compose, Space, Space |
| GNU Emacs | Ctrl+X 8 Space |
| Vim | Ctrl+K Space Space, or Ctrl+K Shift+N Shift+S |
| MS Windows (all applications) | Alt+0160 or Alt+255 (on numeric keypad) |
| Dreamweaver, LibreOffice, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org (since 3.0) |
Ctrl+Shift+Space |
| WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org (before 3.0), LyX | Ctrl+Space |
| GTK-based applications | Ctrl+Shift+U A0 |
| Mac Adobe InDesign | Option+Command+X |
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