title: Putting an html escape character inside a markdown code block
body: <p>Is there a way to put an escape character from html inside a codeblock in markdown? Specifically, I was hoping to a no line-break space character, <code>&amp;nbsp;</code>, inside a code block to create a space separated number that wouldn't get cut into multiple lines. I don't think it affects anything, but this is for the stackedit flavor of markdown.</p>
  
  <p>Currently, stackedit renders <code>1&amp;nbsp;000</code> exactly the same as Stack Overflow, with the html escape character being copied instead of rendered.</p>