<p dir="ltr"><br /> On Dec 11, 2012 9:28 PM, "David Gould" <<a href="mailto:daveg@sonic.net">daveg@sonic.net</a>>
wrote:<br/> ><br /> > Thank you. I got the example via cut and paste from email and pasted it<br /> > into
psqlon different hosts. od tells me it ends each line with:<br /> ><br /> > \n followed by 0xC2 0xA0 and then
normalspaces. The C2A0 thing is<br /> > apparently NO-BREAK SPACE. Invisible, silent, odorless but still
deadly.<br/> ><br /> > Which will teach me not to accept text files from the sort of people who<br /> > write
codein Word I guess.<p dir="ltr">It's not just Word... I was bitten by this last week by a WYSIWYG HTML widget I was
usingto write some documentation. When I copied the examples I had created out of said environment during a final
technicalaccuracy pass and they failed to run in psql, I panicked for a few minutes.<p dir="ltr">I eventually
determinedthat, rather than just wrapping my code in <pre> tags, the widget had created entities that
werefaithfully converted into Unicode non-breaking spaces in the psql input.