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Re:Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem by dingaling on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:25PM (#12132647)
I frequently complete eBay feedback 'comments' fields[0] with a variety of Unicode spaces and Firefox at least doesn't seem to collapse them.

[0] eBay insists on something being entered and when it was a routine transaction with a vendor I seldom have anything useful to say.

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Re:Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem by olympus on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:48PM (#12132798)
Not sure if you're a frequent eBayer, but the common behavior in that community is just "A+++++++++" with some arbitrary number of "+" indicating that everything went fine.
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Re:Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem by MyNameIsFred on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:25PM (#12133649)
He's no doubt observed that and is using whitespace to rail against the ridiculousness of that convention.
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