Empty Characters -

Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character¹

There is an apochyphal story (read: B.S.) about how the Eskimo² languages have an unusually large number of words for snow. I don’t know about unusual, but in Unicode (and perhaps typography in general) there certainly are a number of characters for whitespace, e.g. good old ASCII ‘ ’.

Unicode	HTML	Description	Example
U+0020	&#32	Space	[ ]
U+00A0	&#160	No-Break Space	[ ]
U+2000	&#8192	En Quad	[ ]
U+2001	&#8193	Em Quad	[ ]
U+2002	&#8194	En Space	[ ]
U+2003	&#8195	Em Space	[ ]
U+2004	&#8196	Three-Per-Em Space	[ ]
U+2005	&#8197	Four-Per-Em Space	[ ]
U+2006	&#8198	Six-Per-Em Space	[ ]
U+2007	&#8199	Figure Space	[ ]
U+2008	&#8200	Punctuation Space	[ ]
U+2009	&#8201	Thin Space	[ ]
U+200A	&#8202	Hair Space	[ ]
U+2028	&#8232	Line Separator	[ ]
U+205F	&#8287	Medium Mathematical Space	[ ]
U+3000	&#12288	Ideographic Space	[　]

Longer table with HTML entity names³

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Usage Note: Eskimo is generally considered an offensive term in my circle. Additional notes ↩︎
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