This is driving me absolutely, !&&%&$ insane... it defies everything that I can think of.
THIS character right here... " "
In between these quotes... open google chrome and inspect. You will see its a
... normal right? Now right click and actually view the source of this stack overflow page. It's a regular space... (also, the character I copied was an actual space).
I could understand if it's some kind of rich text editor or something, but in the raw html source is a regular space, so what gives?
Here's just with hitting the space key (which works fine)... " "
.
You can even copy it and paste it everywhere and wreak havoc and make chrome put
everywhere. Even though whats copied in your clipboard is just a SPACE.
I have these stupid characters show up everywhere randomly in my website and I have no idea where they come from, or WHY is google converting a SPACE into a nbsp;
I have tried inspecting the actual character code and it's a regular space from all things I can find...
Every single method I try shows it as a NORMAL space... so what gives?
If i use ruby and do " ".ord
I get 32
. If i do it with the broken space I also get 32
.
Please help me im losing my mind.
edit: you can prove this... view source on this page and you will see two empty " "
like normal. Now look in console and only the one will be a
, yet the raw source is identical.
Image for people not using chrome (this is looking at this very post via chrome dev tools):
Here's the HTML of the same text you see when you view source... no nbsp to be found.
“ ” U+0020 Space (SP) Unicode Character.
When I view this page's source in Internet Explorer, or download it directly from the server and view it in a text editor, the first space character in question is formatted like this in the actual HTML:
THIS character right here... " "
Notice the  
entity. That is Unicode codepoint U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
. Chrome is just being nice and re-formatting it as
when inspecting the HTML. But make no mistake, it is a real non-breaking space, not Unicode codepoint U+0020 SPACE
like you are expecting. U+00A0
is visually displayed the same as U+0020
, but they are semantically different characters.
The second space character in question is formatted like this in the actual HTML:
<p>Here's just with hitting the space key (which works fine)... <code>" "</code>.</p>
So it is Unicode codepoint U+0020
and not U+00A0
. Viewing the raw hex data of this page confirms that:
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