Post #2917602
2026-05-22 14:16 UTC
Did you know that if you copy-paste a string containing a non-breaking space (NBSP, U+A0) between #Firefox browser fields, they are intact but that character is replaced with a space on system clipboard (on #Linux at least).
This seems not be my #KDE desktop bug since I can copy-paste NBSP around in every other app on my system. Also, if the text node is copied from Firefox DevTools (F12), NBSP is intact.
Only 2 hours of work time wasted this #Friday due to this (anti-)feature.
#devops
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@extechop@infosec.exchange 2026-05-22 14:29
@zouppen@chaos.social Did you try does this happen also with soft hyphens (SHY, U+00AD)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen