White-space Characters

The following table lists the character codes and escape sequences that GameMaker considers to be white-space characters. An empty cell in the table indicates there is no escape sequence for that character code.

For a detailed list of all these characters, see Whitespace character.

Whitespace Characters
Escape SequenceUnicode Escape SequenceDescription
"\t""\u0009"character tabulation (tab)
"\n""\u000A"line feed (new line)
"\v""\u000B"line tabulation (vertical tab)
"\f""\u000C"form feed
"\r""\u000D"carriage return
" ""\u0020"space
 "\u0085"next line
 "\u00A0"no-break space
 "\u1680"ogham space mark
 "\u180E"mongolian vowel separator
 "\u2000"en quad
 "\u2001"em quad
 "\u2002"en space
 "\u2003"em space
 "\u2004"three-per-em space
 "\u2005"four-per-em space
 "\u2006"six-per-em space
 "\u2007"figure space
 "\u2008"punctuation space
 "\u2009"thin space
 "\u200A"hair space
 "\u200B"zero width space
 "\u200C"zero width non-joiner
 "\u200D"zero width joiner
 "\u2028"line separator
 "\u2029"paragraph separator
 "\u202F"narrow no-break space
 "\u205F"medium mathematical space
 "\u2060"word joiner
 "\u3000"ideographic space
 "\uFEFF"zero width non-breaking space