This doesnt work with wrap_content of a textview,when the space occurs at the end of the text. The textview does not maintain the width that is taken up by the 'space' character. – toobsco42 Nov 23 '13 at 4:13

This will add a non-breakable space. It is different from a regular space and will not work well with certain functions (XPath's normalize-space,for example). Try using (regular space) instead of . @toobsco42 – shwartz Feb 10 '14 at 16:43