This is definitely not a critical issue, but it has been bugging me for a long time. All of my decks are literally infested with non-breaking spaces, which are not visible in the note editor, but can cause issues when displaying the card. Search for in the card browser to see if you are also …

Are you sure this is a problem caused by Anki? I always thought it would be the sources or the way my system handles the clipboard content. I usually fix this with Find & Replace. Select all notes and do this: [image] Since ;nbsp is of no use in Anki cards (at least to me), this can’t cause any …

It might very well be caused by an interplay of Anki and the OS. But the first scenario I described above makes me believe this is at least partially Anki’s fault. I mean, the string from the clipboard must not even contain a space. Find & Replace is definitely a convenient solution I haven’t thoug…

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I have this same problem. I have a list of items stored as HTML so items have varying text color codes. I know there is not a single & n b s p ; (I inserted spaces; other just a space appears in the forum post!) in the original code anywhere, but when I copy from that file (as displayed in a browse…

This is the bane of my anki existence. Every time i type space and then paste something, it keeps the I followed the bug but i dont understand what is discussed there, just that is very hard to fix Is it maybe possible via addon to remove any &nbsp in the field every time you paste text?

@kleinerpirat has made an awesome addon to deal with this [image] nbspRemover [Official Support] Add-ons AnkiWeb: nbspRemover - AnkiWeb Automatically removes non-breaking spaces during editing and offers a purge button in the Tools menu to clear the collection. Reasons…

Anki inserts erroneous non-breaking spaces when pasting from clipboard

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whatchu May 26, 2022, 8:37pm 7

@kleinerpirat has made an awesome addon to deal with this

Thanks again!

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Anki inserts erroneous non-breaking spaces when pasting from clipboard

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