Funny enough I clicked on the post wondering how it could possibly be that a single space was length 7.

eastbound 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

It can be many Zero-Width Space, or a few Hair-Width Space.

You never know, when you don’t know CSS and try to align your pixels with spaces. Some programers should start a trend where 1 tab = 3 hairline-width spaces (smaller than 1 char width).

Next up: The <half-br/> tag.

	▲	Moru 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		You laugh but my typewriter could do half-br 40 years ago. Was used for typing super/subscript.

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ale42 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe it isn't a space, but a list of invisible Unicode chars...

	▲	yread 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It could also be a byte length of a 3 byte UTF-8 BOM and then some stupid space character like f09d85b3
	▲	robin_reala 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It’s U+0020, a standard space character.

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c12 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I did exactly the same, thinking that maybe it was invisible unicode characters or something I didn't know about.

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timeon 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unintentional click-bait.

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aaron695 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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