Word divider

In punctuation, a word divider is a glyph whose purpose is to separate words. In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabicscripts, as well as other scripts of Europe and West Asia, the word divider is a blank space, or whitespace. This convention is spreading, along with other aspects of European punctuation, to Asia and Africa, where words are usually written without word separation. However, there are a number of other word divider characters in use as well, either currently or historically. For example, the interpunct, · often used in Latin inscriptions.

In character encoding, word segmentation depends on which characters are defined as word dividers.