Space characters incorrect; button pointing to URL ending in hash (#) not working
I am having issues with pages on DAX Guide, e.g.: https://dax.guide/now/
These issues are when using Firefox on Windows 10. I have tried with Safe mode, and turning off Enhanced Tracking protection. I have made no changes to Javascript etc.
Issue 1 If I select a code example and try to run it in an external program (e.g. DAX Studio), it fails, and I have found that the reason is because the "space" characters are not ASCII code 32, which is a normal space, but instead ASCII 160. Another symptom of this is that you cannot unindent the paragraphs in a text editor (Vim), if you paste the code there. I have tested and this is not an issue with Chrome, Edge, or Opera. Also if I click on the "Try It" button, it takes you to a runnable version of the code where the spaces are correct. These are workarounds, but why is Firefox using the wrong space characters?
Issue 2 I have seen another response to this kind of question, but it did not exactly answer it: on the website as above, when you click on the "Copy" button, which points to https://dax.guide/now/#, the code is supposed to be copied to the clipboard, however it does nothing. This works without issue in the browsers mentioned above. I have noticed previously on other websites that URLs ending in hash / pound did not work in Firefox. Is this something that Firefox just does not handle, or is there a setting to enable it?
Thanks
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Firefox usually doesn't allow access to the clipboard via JavaScript. Try keyboard shortcuts in case the buttons on the webpage or other methods aren't working.
- Copy: Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert (Mac: Command+C)
- Paste: Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert (Mac: Command+V)
- Cut: Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete (Mac: Command+X)
Those 160 characters are non-breaking spaces (U+00A0; ). There is a mention about this in the Firefox 107 release notes under Unresolved.
In order to better support certain typographical conventions, Firefox now preserves some non-breaking spaces when copying text to the clipboard instead of changing them to regular spaces. The new behavior is known to cause problems when non-breaking spaces are used for indentation.
- 1769534 - Preserve non-breaking spaces when copying HTML content [107]
- 1801186 - On copy, non-breaking spaces used for padding should be converted to regular spaces
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)
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Firefox usually doesn't allow access to the clipboard via JavaScript. Try keyboard shortcuts in case the buttons on the webpage or other methods aren't working.
- Copy: Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert (Mac: Command+C)
- Paste: Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert (Mac: Command+V)
- Cut: Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete (Mac: Command+X)
Those 160 characters are non-breaking spaces (U+00A0; ). There is a mention about this in the Firefox 107 release notes under Unresolved.
In order to better support certain typographical conventions, Firefox now preserves some non-breaking spaces when copying text to the clipboard instead of changing them to regular spaces. The new behavior is known to cause problems when non-breaking spaces are used for indentation.
- 1769534 - Preserve non-breaking spaces when copying HTML content [107]
- 1801186 - On copy, non-breaking spaces used for padding should be converted to regular spaces
(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)
Ti ṣàtúnṣe
Thank you very much for the fast and informative answers!