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So everyone is talking about those Greek sign pranks right? But I got something just as bad (I haven't used it as a prank but I've just encountered it on my own -> pranked my self)

So on Mac OS you can type this character with ALT+Space and it looks like a space, but it isn't. If you don't have render whitespaces on you would never know that it is not a space... Imagine the time you can spend on finding that xD you mistyped 1character and BAM broken xD

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    On windows should be Alt + 255
    Whitespace which counts a actual character
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    @SHA-256 thanks for the info :P yea apparently it's a non breaking space or something but imagine looking for a single whitespace-y character in your code :P
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    @liammartens Being a Python Dev I can imagine the nightmare (although it avoidable since sublime text shows spaces as dots and the special space gets shown as nothing )
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    @SHA-256 yea true but you have to have it turned on of course and then again it is a needle in a haystack haha 😄
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    It is named non breakable space, meant to be used before punctuation to avoid it to go next line. In html, you insert one with   and in LaTeX with ~

    The true worse is the right-to-left block marker character, reverse the reading of characters after it in the text editor, useless in all situations
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