** Description changed: OS: from Hardy to at least Trusty. 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. A workaround in to run setxkbmap -option "nbsp:none" - to make <Alt Gr><space> type regular space character, - and use `printf '\u00a0'` or `printf "\xc2\xa0"` to have a non-breaking space in scripts and in command line. + to make <Alt Gr><space> type regular space character. To make this default setting, you could add + + XKBOPTIONS="nbsp:none" + + in '/etc/default/keyboard'. + + Then use `printf '\u00a0'` or `printf "\xc2\xa0"` to have a non-breaking + space in scripts and in command line. Non-breaking space can be typed (in GTK apps) by <Ctrl><Shift>u 00a0<Enter>, if needed, but it looks exactly like a regular space. For me, <Super><Space> would be a good shortcut for non-breaking space.
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