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Old 08-14-2008
non-breaking space question
Might anyone know how to make a nbsp (160|0xA0) character? I am using a Dell Latitude D620 running Windows XP and then starting Exceed 9.0 defaulting to native window emulation for my X (us.kbf keymapping) (Latin-1 symbol set I believe) and calling an xterm (fontdefault, whatever that might be) with login shell zsh (3.0.8) from a machine (Netra 1280) running Solaris 9. Does anyone have any idea what esc|ctrl|etc sequence might generate it? If any more information would help, I will tell what I can. I did not copy and paste from Windows, so it is not that I grabbed it and ported it over.

(I accidentally made the non-breaking space character on the command line and it caused me to spend about an hour needlessly debugging a script of mine because it joined my option to my argument akin to

prog -opt\ arg

or

prog "-opt arg"

instead of

prog -opt arg

even though it looked like the latter, it behaved more like the former two, though, in reality, it was like none of them.)
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Old 08-15-2008
It just happened again while piping to sort and zsh reported that it did not recognize the command sort, because it looked like " sort" to the shell. Has no one else using zsh 3.0.8 experienced this? I think it happens while I am editing the command line, but what causes it escapes me.
 
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