Monday, June 23, 2008

Keep Words Together with Tilde

Wordle now displays a “build number” in the lower right-hand corner of the page, which means that I can now say...

As of build 506, you may now join words together with the tilde character

~

So, for example, the text “The~Who played Leeds with Mott~the~Hoople and Bruce~Springsteen” might be rendered as

This ought to ease the pain folks have experienced in trying to emit a unicode non-breaking space.