When there are more than 2 psaces in text, all the spaces after the first will always be nbsp; regardless of the JCE setting. The is correct HTML syntax.

Thanks for your response. There are not two spaces, the space you see next to the nbsp; was where the & went as in &nbsp. I took it out for posting purposes because if I left it in, then you would not be able to see where the &nbsp was there as it would turn into a space. I could have replaced the semicolons with colons as follows for same effect:

<strong>Recuerdos de&nbsp:Śrīpāda&nbsp:Govardhana&nbsp:Bābājī&nbsp:Mahārāja</strong> [Śrīpāda&nbsp:Govardhana&nbsp:Bābājī&nbsp:Mahārāja, anteriormente llamado&nbsp:Śrī&nbsp:Nṛsiṁhānanda&nbsp:Brahmacārī, es un discípulo de&nbsp:Śrīla&nbsp:Bhaktivedānta&nbsp:Vāmana&nbsp:Gosvāmī&nbsp:Mahārāja&nbsp:y fue su sirviente personal durante muchos años].

So still baffled...

1.) I cut and paste a paragraph that has text that has nbsp; in it such as following

<strong>Recuerdos de Śrīpāda Govardhana Bābājī Mahārāja</strong>

Where is the content originally from? It seems like some of the single spaces a utf-8 non-breaking spaces (which is unusual) which are converted into nbsp when the content is processed.

My revised analysis below:

1.) Where is the content originally from?
One person sends a MS doc file. Why she doesn't have ability for MS docX, i don't know.
I open the file on mac os with latest Pages. If I cut and paste from Pages into JCE, I loose all the italics.
So I export the file from Pages to MS Word docX file. I then open it in Virtual Machine running Windows 10 with Word 2007.
Then save as "Single File Web Page" and it gets the ".mht" file extension. I open this file with Opera Browser, latest version on mac.

2. How are the spaces saved in the MHT file?
By doing a "hexdump -C filename" on this file, I see the place where the non breaking space goes as two bytes, "0d 0a". What these are I don't know. Other spaces are just encode as regular spaces as one byte hex "20" . (sample file attached)

3.) What does JCE do with these 0d 0a bytes?
In JCE Global configuration, If I have I have "Keep non-breaking spaces" set to Yes, when I cut and paste text from this web page, JCE converts these "0d0a" bytes to six characters "&nbsp:" , ( the last one being a semicolon rather than a colon).
When I save the article, What ends up in the database are these six characters which can be seen if I dump the article from command line by
echo "select introtext from #_content where id = 48;" | myql database-name | hexdump -C
BTW, JCE does a great job of with MS Word cleanup.

4.)What does JCE do with 0d 0a bytes when "Keep non-breaking spaces" is set to No?
When I cut and paste text from this web page, JCE converts these "0d0a" to "c2a0" which is hex form for "&nbsp:"
While in JCE, when I toggle off the editor to see the raw HTML, I see only a space, and not the "&nbsp"; as before.
However, when I save the article and dump the database, I see the non-breaking space is still there, just in another form as "c2a0"

5.)Is there anyway to convert the non-breaking spaces to a regular space?
I can do this manually by leaving "Keep non-breaking spaces" set to Yes, and then toggling the editor and replacing them, but this is really time consuming.
I could also just paste the html from JCE into vim and do search and replace, then paste it back. But not all users have that ability.
I wonder if it would be possible for JCE to have a button to convert all "c2a0" to "20" and one to convert all "&nbsp:" to regular space?

I think this could probably be solved in step 1.

Can you attach a zip of the original .doc file?

Thanks, here is original doc file attached.

I'm not seeing a lot of issues when pasting content from Pages. The italics are still present, and there don't seem to be nbsp problems.

I don't understand why when I cut and paste from pages the italics disappear and when I do it from the web page they stay.

Must be some setting in my JCE profile. Can you send me a copy of your JCE profile to look at?

I attached picture of my latest cut and paste from pages. The word pūjyapāda and hari-kathā should be italicized.

Please post a screenshot of the parameters page at Editor Profiles -> Plugin Parameters -> Clipboard.

Screen shot attached. I am starting to feel stupid :-) I am sure it is something very simple.

Try these settings:

Remove All Spans : No
Remove All Styles : Yes
Styles to keep: [blank]
Styles to remove: [blank]
Remove Tags: [blank]
Keep Tags: [blank]
Remove Attributes: class
Allow Event Attributes: No
Remove empty paragraphs: Yes

Pages appears to use <i> for italics and <b> for bold text, but you can search/replace these (to <em> and <strong>) in the Code tab if you want to.

Thanks, I tried the settings above, checked several times, to see if they were set just like you listed.
Logged out, and back in, several times.
Still do not have desired results. The italics and bold do not transfer over on paste.
I am using Pages version 12.1 and Firefox 107.

I have attached 3 new images, of the settings, bigger image size this time.

Please send me a login - https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/contact/site-login

thanks, sent

You are right, I tried Safari and Opera and they work fine. Also no issue with the non-breaking spaces, they are completely changed to regular spaces. I will be more careful with using firefox forpasting.

Thanks for discovering this. I have been baffled by this for some time.