ChatGPT Space Remover
If your text has spaces that behave oddly (search will not match them, lines break in the wrong place, a CSV import collapses), this fixes them.
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Your text is processed in memory and never stored. See the full list of characters this removes.
Sixteen characters that all look like a space
Unicode has a lot of spaces. Most are for typesetting: thin spaces between numbers, an em space for indentation, a figure space that lines digits up in a table. They render at different widths, and several of them prevent a line break where an ordinary space would allow one.
When one of them lands where an ordinary space was meant to be, nothing looks wrong and several things stop working.
| Character | Codepoint | Where it usually comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Narrow no-break space | U+202F | AI output, French typography |
| Non-breaking space | U+00A0 | HTML , word processors, web copy-paste |
| Em space | U+2003 | Typeset documents, PDFs |
| En space | U+2002 | Typeset documents |
| Thin space | U+2009 | Number formatting |
| Ideographic space | U+3000 | CJK text and CJK keyboards |
| Figure space | U+2007 | Aligning digits in tables |
What breaks, concretely
These are the symptoms that bring most people here.
- Ctrl+F does not find a phrase you can plainly see on the page
- A CSV import puts several columns into one, or splits one into several
- Python raises IndentationError or a non-printable character error on a line that looks fine
- A URL slug generated from a title contains a stray dash or an encoded character
- Two strings that look identical fail an equality check
- A line refuses to wrap where you expect, leaving a long overflow on mobile
Folded, not deleted
Every exotic space becomes one ordinary space (U+0020) rather than being removed. Deleting them would run words together, which is a worse problem than the one you started with.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Why does my text have a narrow no-break space?
- Usually because it was generated by a model that produced one, or because it was copied through a web page or word processor that inserted one. In French typography it is also correct before certain punctuation, so it is not always a mistake.
- Does this remove ordinary double spaces?
- No. It converts non-standard space characters to the ordinary one. It does not reformat your writing or collapse repeated spaces.
- Will this fix my Python indentation error?
- If the error is caused by a non-breaking or narrow no-break space in the indentation, yes. Paste the file in, and any exotic space in the leading whitespace becomes an ordinary one.
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