Non breaking space in XAML vs. code

Posted by Henrik Söderlund on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Henrik Söderlund
Published on 2010-05-31T13:18:27Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 13:23 UTC
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This works fine, and correctly inserts non-breaking spaces into the string:

<TextBlock Text="Non&#160;Breaking&#160;Text&#160;Here"></TextBlock>

But what I really need is to replace spaces with non-breaking spaces during data binding. So I wrote a simple value converter that replaces spaces with "&#160;". It does indeed replace spaces with "&#160;" but "&#160;" is displayed literally instead of showing as a non-breaking space. This is my converter:

public class SpaceToNbspConverter : IValueConverter
{
    #region IValueConverter Members

    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return value.ToString().Replace(" ", "&#160;");
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

    #endregion
}

Does anybody know why it works in XAML, but not in code?

/Henrik

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