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In punctuation, a word divider is a form of glyph which separates written words. In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets, as well as other scripts of Europe and West Asia, the word divider is a blank space, or whitespace. This convention is spreading, along with other aspects of European punctuation, to Asia and Africa ...
Non-breaking space (°) is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position. Pilcrow (¶) is the symbolic representation of paragraphs. Line break (↵) breaks the current line without new paragraph. It puts lines of text close together. Tab character (→) is used to align text horizontally to the next tab stop.
In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space ( ), also called NBSP, required space, [1] hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces, it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position.
It specifies where it would be OK to add a line-break where a word is too long, or it is perceived that the browser will break a line at the wrong place. Whether the line actually breaks is then left up to the browser. The break will look like a space - see soft hyphen below when it would be more appropriate to break the word or line using a ...
In an attempt to simplify the several newline characters used in legacy text [citation needed], Unicode introduces its own newline characters to separate either lines or paragraphs: U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR (abbreviated LS or LSEP) and U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR (abbreviated PS or PSEP).
Various dictionaries use the interpunct (in this context, sometimes called a hyphenation point) to indicate where to split a word and insert a hyphen if the word doesn't fit on the line. There is also a separate Unicode character, U+2027 ‧ HYPHENATION POINT.
The most common word separator is a space (U+0020). However, there are other word joiners and separators that also indicate a break between words and participate in line-breaking algorithms. The No-Break Space (U+00A0) also produces a baseline advance without a glyph but inhibits rather than enabling a line-break.
Separator, space Thinner than a thin space. HTML/XML named entity:  ,   line separator: U+2028: 8232 Is a line-break Common: General Punctuation: Separator, line paragraph separator: U+2029: 8233 Is a line-break Common: General Punctuation: Separator, paragraph narrow no-break space: U+202F: 8239 No: No Common: General ...