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by rachelbythebay 2299 days ago
Ah, my old nemesis, the shifted space. Haven't been bitten by one of those in a while. Thanks for digging that up!
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No-break spaces aka   can be quite useful for preventing line breaks for example between a value and its unit, or between label and value. Or when writing for example 'e.g.', although you could argue that in this case a NARROW non-breaking space U+202F would be preferable.