How to insert the non breaking space entity  ?

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Hi,

when I try to insert the   character in the content by clicking a command button, it is displayed as a string in the text. I’m using Transaction.insertText(' ', from).

How can I insert it as the true   entity ?

thank you

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What I ended up doing is to take the CP value (found on the unicode homepage) for all of our special chars and insert it with a little helper. This seems to do the trick.

const cp = '00A0';
const tr = view.state.tr;
const d = document.createElement('span');
d.innerHTML = '&#x' + cp;
tr.insertText(d.textContent);
view.dispatch(tr);
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It works great ! thank you.

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ProseMirror documents are not HTML, so just like you can’t put arbitrary tags in them, HTML entities have no meaning there.

Or you could just directly put it in a string like "\u00a0". Going through the DOM to convert a character code to a character seems unnecessary.

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