&nbsp

[Russ McClay]

Dennis Baron wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me what the abbreviation &nbsp means in email? I've been
> seeing it recently but I must have been absent the day it was covered in
> class.

  is the ISO8859-1 symbol for the keyboard "space" key.
Used frequently in html coding and elsewhere.

The email you see   would indicate it is "html-encoded" email
which I consider to be a transgression.  =)

Russ





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