Localizing non-breaking space in Windows 8

Question

I'm trying to localize a Windows 8 Metro style app as described in a guide on MSDN . This worked very well so far, but now I'm trying to localize a string containing a non-breaking space which appears in a XAML file (originally as hexadecimal xml-escaped string: &#x00a0). Just putting the above string into the Resources.resw file does not work, it appears just as &#x00a0. What do I have to do to get a non-breaking space in my localizations?

Answer 1

&#00a0 is a XML character literal, which means that <foo>&#00a0</foo> has the inner-text equal to the string "\\x00a0".

Probably the best thing for you to do is to dynamically reference the string, and perform a replace:

var loader = new Windows.ApplicationModel.Resources.ResourceLoader();
var str = loader.GetString('Farewell');
var modstring = str.Replace("&#00a0", "\x00a0");
myControl.Text = modstring;