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Re:My favourite Git commit (2019) by bassdigit on Sunday March 08, 2020 @05:17PM (#22520678)
It is U+00A0 [1], a non-breaking space [2], can be typed in some office applications using ⌃+⇧+␣.

[1]: http://fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00a0/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space

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Re:My favourite Git commit (2019) by rachelbythebay on Sunday March 08, 2020 @06:36PM (#22521112)
Ah, my old nemesis, the shifted space. Haven't been bitten by one of those in a while. Thanks for digging that up!
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Re:My favourite Git commit (2019) by bassdigit on Sunday March 08, 2020 @06:55PM (#22521234)
No-break spaces aka   can be quite useful for preventing line breaks for example between a value and its unit, or between label and value. Or when writing for example 'e.g.', although you could argue that in this case a NARROW non-breaking space U+202F would be preferable.
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