As tye identified above, whatever character was encoded as the leading whitespace, by the time it had gone through cut&paste in your browser, transmission to PM, receipt by a perl script, storage in the PM DB, retrievial via a perl script, and being transmitted to my browser, it ended up encoded as ascii 160. Exactly where in the chain the transformation occurred I wouldn't even hazard a guess at.

Suffice it to say, as character code 160 is illegal as either utf-8 or utf-16, with the browser set to ignore the encoding information in the page and treat everything as utf-16, it correctly displayed the 'unknown character' symbol in its place, which is what I was seeing.

The fact that some parts of the chain aren't yet set up to handle unicode means that falling back to 8-bit extended-ascii (ANSI?) representation will persist for sometime.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Unicode in <code> sections. (160=&nbsp;) by BrowserUk
in thread Unicode in <code> sections. by BrowserUk

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