From: "Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)" <jonas@...>
Date: 2011-01-13T08:59:50+09:00
Subject: Re: String.strip with UTF-8

2011/1/12 Erik E. <erik.eide@gmail.com>:
> Thank you for quick reply David & Peter, I was upgrading Ruby to see if
> it made a difference, but I can see it's not a space now which explains
> why it didn't strip

Yeah, it's the dreaded non-breaking space [1]. Unfortunately, somebody
thought it would be nice to map Alt+Space to this character on some
keymaps (like mine, which is Swiss-French). If you're on a mac, see my
solution here :
http://0x2a.im/2009/04/16/terminal-unicode-problem-2.html




[1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Non-breaking_space