Good morning, >From time to time a mysterious invisible character shows up in my BBEdit text. It appears on the screen as just a space, but when I Show Invisibles + Show Spaces, the diamond symbol is not there. I highlighted the space and opened the ASCII Table, but no ASCII code was indicated. I tried all sorts of different text codings but the character remains invisible. When I Zap Gremlins it does indeed get zapped. When I try to save a file that contains the character with Western encoding I'm told the character is unmappable, and that I have to save it as UTF-8.
The problem comes if I copy a string with the character in BBEdit and paste it in Terminal (or almost anywhere else). If the character is in the middle of a string, the two adjacent words are catenated into one. If the character is at the end of a string, then when I paste that string in Terminal it appears as a space but is treated as part of the word it abuts. I don't really care what this character is, but I would love to know what I'm doing that creates it. I just spent an hour trying to debug a perfectly good Perl script when I fed the script a string with the mystery character at the end. Thank y'all, Wayne Durham Blacksburg, Virginia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
