On 2012-02-15 18:16, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 15:19:59 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I'm wary of magical characters because they may end up in text copied
by the user. For example, what if someone posts a code sample that
contains a long string of alphanumerics?
It depends on where you paste it. Copying a string containing a
zero-width space and pasting it in TextMate results in a visible
space. If I instead paste it in TextEdit there's no visible space. I
tried a few other applications as well and there was no visible space
in those.
Yes, but will the code from our hypothetical example still compile and
work as it should?
I have no idea and it might depend on the text editor you're pasting the
code in.
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/Jacob Carlborg
