# Is it possible to use non breaking space in translation?
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648
**Category:** Translations
**Tags:** all-languages
**Created:** [November 7, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648 "2023-11-07T20:46:42Z")
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### Author:  [@Matth78](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Matth78)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648/1 "2023-11-07T20:46:42Z")
Hello!
A quick question after an user made suggestions about translations. He suggested to replace space with non breaking line space. (I don’t know the correct word?)
Is it ok to do that or would it render incorrectly in AntennaPod? And if it is ok what’s the correct way to do it :
- simply use a non breaking space
- or some code BBC/html or whatever code?
Does somebody knows and can confirm? I want to be sure it won’t break anything before modifying.
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### Author:  [@femmdi](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/femmdi)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648/2 "2023-11-07T20:57:04Z")
I didn’t try but Transifex has a special character for adding non-breaking space… it’s called “NBSP” and you can add it from the “add special character” button.
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648/3 "2023-11-07T21:55:43Z")
Where do they want to add it? Depending on where it is used, this could lead to weird line breaks or problems on small screens
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### Author:  [@Matth78](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Matth78)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648/4 "2023-11-07T22:08:47Z")
Everywhere there shouldn’t be a line return :
- before exclamations or questions marks (in French you add a space before)
- and before colon
They are right and these spaces should be non breaking. Yet I think there is little chance a line return could happen. (But it could for long strings)
Giving your reaction it’s probably better to be safe and avoid it.
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648/5 "2023-11-07T22:23:34Z")
I wasn’t sure if they tried to make the line breaks look nicer (something like avoiding that one word is being pushed to the next line by “glueing” the words together. I sometimes do that when writing papers). That would probably backfire with different screen sizes. So I would avoid such hacks.
For the French punctation, it seems like a good idea to use non-breaking spaces 👍
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### Author:  [@Matth78](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Matth78)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648/6 "2023-11-07T22:36:14Z")
Ok then will do as soon as I can! Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-non-breaking-space-in-translation/3648/7 "2024-03-06T22:36:19Z")
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