No-break space and narrow no-break space are replaced by space

sam · November 15, 2021, 12:14am

It’s our text cleaner:

discourse/discourse/blob/2b848213f7dc6999ddf0809e68e1ceb980597c9d/lib/text_cleaner.rb#L74-L78

    
      
          @@whitespaces_regexp = Regexp.new("(\u00A0|\u1680|\u180E|[\u2000-\u200A]|\u2028|\u2029|\u202F|\u205F|\u3000)", "u").freeze
          
          
def self.normalize_whitespaces(text)
            text&.gsub(@@whitespaces_regexp, ' ')
          end

I think this was done to avoid a form of trivial griefing where people make edits to posts and they change nothing and people scratch head to say … what has changed?

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No-break space and narrow no-break space are replaced by space

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