The most annoying bug in the world

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dandymcgee
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The most annoying bug in the world

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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.
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Re: The most annoying bug in the world

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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:
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Re: The most annoying bug in the world

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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.
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