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haberman on Jan 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a ...

Indeed, performing a hex dump, the second space seems to have been replaced with 0xc2 0xa0, which is UTF-8 for:

U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE character

Which is the same as HTML entity  

apotheon on Jan 14, 2011 [–]

Thanks for taking it a step further. I was to lazy to go that extra mile.

Well . . . several keystrokes, anyway, plus a Google lookup.

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