I have had the same issue and once had to spend a greta deal of time
stripping out non-visible characters on a php script I got from a colleague.


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jon <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Every now and then I copy some sample code (e.g. JavaScript) from a
> web page (not from the source) and paste it into a BBEdit document. If
> I copy from Safari (which I use most of the time), and the sample code
> contains non-breakable space (&nbsp;), I easily don't notice those
> invisible characters, but they may cause my code to fail mysteriously,
> and I often waste too much time debugging. I know that BBEdit has this
> option on the Edit->Text Options to "Show invisibles", but I think it
> would have been useful if I could get a warning every time I pasted
> text containing invisible non-ASCII characters ...
> (I've experienced that the Opera browser fails if JavaScript code
> contains non-breakable space.)
>
> /Jon
>
> >
>

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