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The most annoying bug in the world

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:19 pm
by dandymcgee
Copy/paste this into your browser URL bar:

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www.google.com/maps​/
It doesn't work.
Now copy/paste this into your browser URL bar:

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www.google.com/maps/
What... the fuck.

Re: The most annoying bug in the world

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 5:06 pm
by Nokurn
I've seen this one before. That's the UTF-8 encoding of a "punctuation space" (U+2008). Totally invisible but... unless you're expecting it to be there, it'll ruin your afternoon :twisted:

Re: The most annoying bug in the world

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 5:20 pm
by dandymcgee
Nokurn wrote:I've seen this one before. That's the UTF-8 encoding of a "punctuation space" (U+2008). Totally invisible but... unless you're expecting it to be there, it'll ruin your afternoon :twisted:
I have no idea who decided we needed a zero-width character.. but goddamn is it annoying to find. It always appears in the most random of places when you're least suspecting it.