With some fonts LibreOffice renders nbspaces way too narrow or too wide, and maybe Word does the same to the extent that they use the same algorithms. It is arguably a bug to let the width of the \xa0 character in the font determine how an nbspace is rendered but there you have it. The best solution is often to double all nbspaces as too wide spaces may look better than too narrow ones.

Den 5 aug 2017 00:10 skrev "Kolen Cheung" <christian.kolen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:

But I still want to reiterate my original point, only if the original source is problematic, one wants to remove/replace the non-breaking space. I recall when I processed some doc files, seems like Word has been trying to be too smart, there are many non-breaking space that shouldn't be there (if my memory serves me well).

Otherwise, replacing non-breaking space to space is basically wrong in typography (another example is "1-2" vs "1–2"). In other words, you're destroying the information the original author has carefully put in there.

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