** Description changed: OS: from Hardy to at least Bionic. When you use Finnish keyboard, you have to hold Alt Gr down to type | or \ or certain other characters. When typing a shell command, you may often want to enter a space character after such characters. But it easily happens that Alt Gr is still down when you press space, and consequently you type non-breaking space character U+00A0 (at least, if you use UTF-8 keyboard layout, which is default in Ubuntu). $cd /tmp ; echo 0 > foo\ bar ; ls "foo bar" ls: cannot access foo bar: No such file or directory $cat foo bar | grep 0 No command ' grep' found, but there are 16 similar ones grep: command not found Besides it may be hard to see the typing error, as non-breaking space character looks exactly same as regular space character. A way to avoid such typos would be to use another keyboard shortcut for non-breaking space. Besides non-breaking space should look different than regular space in terminal emulators and in editors. WORKAROUNDS: Run setxkbmap -option "nbsp:none" to make <Alt Gr><space> type regular space character. Even better option is to use "classic", "mac" or "nodeadkeys" keyboard variant instead of "". This could be set up in /etc/default/keyboard and maybe in configuration dialog in your desktop environment. Non-breaking space can still be typed (in GTK apps) by <Ctrl><Shift>u 00a0<Enter>, if needed. Another option is to use compose key: <compose> <space> <space>. In Bash scripts you could also use `printf '\u00a0'` or `printf '\xc2\xa0'` to print a non-breaking space. (You could use `echo -en` instead of `printf`.) Or you could set up a variable `readonly nbsp=$'\u00a0'`. + + Yet another workaround would be to use a font that displays regular + space and non-breaking space differently, but is there one?
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