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A whitespace character is a character data element that represents white space when text is rendered for display by a computer. For example, a space character ( U+0020 SPACE , ASCII 32) represents blank space such as a word divider in a Western script .
In page layout, illustration and sculpture, white space is often referred to as negative space. It is the portion of a page left unmarked: margins , gutters , and space between columns, lines of type, graphics, figures, or objects drawn or depicted, and is not necessarily actually white if the background is of a different colour.
Whitespace characters, characters in computing that represent horizontal or vertical space; White spaces (radio), allocated but locally unused radio frequencies; TV White Space Database, a mechanism to enable utilization of the allocated but locally unused radio frequencies; Whitespace (programming language), an esoteric programming language
Whitespace is a commonly used concept for a typographic effect. Basically it covers invisible characters that have a spacing effect in rendered text. It includes spaces, tabs, and new line formatting controls. In Unicode, such a character has the property set WSpace=yes. In version 16.0, there are 25 whitespace characters.
Whitespace is an esoteric programming language with syntax where only whitespace characters (space, tab and linefeed) have meaning – contrasting typical languages that largely ignore whitespace characters. [1] [2]
A second common application of non-breaking spaces is in plain text file formats such as SGML, HTML, TeX and LaTeX, whose rendering engines are programmed to treat sequences of whitespace characters (space, newline, tab, form feed, etc.) as if they were a single character (but this behavior can be overridden).
White space in code is typically stored as whitespace characters. For a free-form language, indentation is exclusively for the programmer since a code processor (i.e. compiler, interpreter) ignores whitespace characters. Code can have inconsistent or even no indentation, but in general is formatted with somewhat consistent indentation.
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, where words are usually written without word separation. [1] [better source needed]