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David Wright [2020-07-11T09:51:07-05] wrote:

> In TeX, you would type in Mr~Wright, because it's considered that Mr
> Wright is not the polite way to print a name in a book. I've never
> tested whether modern versions of text will handle Mr Wright directly
> as input, [...]

At least with Xetex and Luatex compilers both tilde (~) and U+00A0
NO-BREAK SPACE can be used as a non-breaking space. There is one
difference. Tilde is a stretchable space just like normal word space.
U+00A0 is a fixed-width space and more suitable for keeping some closely
related parts together. (And let's not forget \, command which is a
fixed 1/6 em space.)

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