Non breaking space in XAML vs. code

Question

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 " ". It does indeed replace spaces with " " but " " 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(" ", " ");     }      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?

Answer 1

In code the syntax for escaping Unicode chars is different than in XAML:

XAML:   C#:   \x00A0 

So this should have worked in code:

return value.ToString().Replace(" ", "\xA0"); 

Answer 2

Have you tried return value.ToString().Replace(' ', System.Convert.ToChar(160)); ?