Invisible Characters Are Hiding in Your Copy-Pasted Text
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You copy a line of text. You run it. It fails. You look again — and it looks identical to the version that worked. Same characters, different result. What's going on? Nine times out of ten, the culprit is an invisible character — a real Unicode code point that occupies space in your string but rend…
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- 2026-10-13 13:31 · DEV Community — AI
Invisible Characters Are Hiding in Your Copy-Pasted Text