Paste into vim, position the cursor under the character in question and hit
:ga for ASCII and :g8 for UTF-8

SPOILER: It's a space.

And I see it in FireFox, but not in Chrome.


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 2:24 PM Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com>
wrote:

> For F28, I am looking for a file editor that when I paste from the
> clipboard, I can see any special characters.
>
> I am having problems with a web form copy to clipboard.  You can see at
> test page at:
>
> http://www.htt-consult.com/button2.html
>
> In Firefox on my F28 system, there is a character copied to the
> clipboard that is in front of the sed command of line 1 that displays in
> mousepad and geany as a space.
>
> When I paste it into Libre Word, I get the text in a bunch of boxes.
>
> I want to know what that character really is to figure out what is wrong
> with my java script.
>
> BTW, I have been told that Chrome does not put any character in front of
> the sed command on the copy button.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated!
>
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