Weird   appearing for no reason

Question

I've just launched my new site, and in going though it in multiple browsers to see how it performs, I've noticed something weird.

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Can you see the gap after the word 'but'? By my reasoning, the word 'was' on the following line should be next to it, as there is plenty of space for it - but as you can see, it isn't.

Although this screenshot is from Firefox (10), I'm getting the same thing in Chrome (17) and Internet Explorer (9).

Using Firebug to inspect the element, it is showing a   between the 'was' and 'disappointed' (which would explain why it isn't on the line above) - but upon viewing the source, no such   exists.

This is leading me to suggest that the browser is inserting them - but I have no idea why.

Anyway, the page in question is http://limeblast.co.uk/2012/02/currently-playing/

Answer 1

I used wget to download the page directly to a file and I noticed that the space between was and 'disappointed' and all other spaces that you see as

  

are encoded with two bytes, C2 A0 hex, while the other spaces are encoded with one byte, 20hex. Hope this helps.

Off-topic, I would also recommend justifying the text.