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[Android/iOS] Support for White Space characters in Markdown

See original GitHub issue

Platform

This bug will track shared model platforms (Android/iOS/UWP).

See also #5350 (Javascript), #5351 (.NET) and #5352 (documentation)

Author or host

Host on Webex Teams

Version of SDK

v1.2.11

Details

Support for

- &nbsp; (honored by iOS)
- &ensp; and 
- &emsp;

is missing for Android and iOS

Sample JSON is as follows:

 {
    "type": "AdaptiveCard",
    "version": "1.0",
    "body": [
        {
            "type": "TextBlock",
            "text": "TextBlock with 4 \"space\" characters    1"
        },
        {
            "type": "TextBlock",
            "text": "TextBlock with 4 \"&-nbsp;\" characters&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1"
        },
        {
            "type": "TextBlock",
            "text": "TextBlock with 4 \"&-ensp;\" characters&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;1"
        },
        {
            "type": "TextBlock",
            "text": "TextBlock with 4 \"&-emsp;\" characters&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;1"
        }
    ],
    "$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json"
}

Resultant Images for the above JSON are: Android White Space- Android iOS White Space- iOS

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

matthidingercommented, Sep 10, 2020

We should investigate the best way to support this scenario without necessarily relying on HTML entities (&nbsp)

E.g., we could rely on unicode characters \u2002 in the JSON, although this doesn’t quite work based on my limited research, so further digging will be required.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6046263/how-to-indent-a-few-lines-in-markdown-markup

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RebeccaAnnecommented, Aug 26, 2021

Fixed by #4000

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