Answers.Body: <p>I did contact Craft about this near the time this question was posted, they were not sure why it was occuring.</p>
  
  <p>I found that this issue was environment specific, it was specifically happening locally on MAMP4, with 5.6.* using NGINX.</p>
  
  <p>I was unable to find the cause of the issue, but, in the end it was not happening on server environments so I decided to give up.</p>
  
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  <li><p>Example from the frontend</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/jxu5B.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/jxu5B.png" alt="Example from the frontend"></a></p></li>
  <li>Example in dev tools</li>
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  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/sFEo2.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/sFEo2.png" alt="Example in dev tools"></a></p>
  
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  <li>If I "view-source" on the page</li>
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  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/kpati.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/kpati.png" alt="If I &quot;view-source&quot; on the page"></a></p>
  
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  <li>Example from Rich Text Field</li>
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  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/9UzXn.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/9UzXn.png" alt="Example from Rich Text Field"></a></p>
  
  <ol start="5">
  <li>Example from Rich Text Field HTML</li>
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  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/UZYeT.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/UZYeT.png" alt="Example from Rich Text Field HTML"></a></p>
  
  <p>This is a Rich Text field within a matrix, it's output in the template like this: <code>{{ block.text }}</code></p>
  
  <p>If I pass the "|raw" filter I get the same.</p>
  
  <p>If you notice, the Rich Text Field has a &nbsp; before the closing <code>&lt;/p&gt;</code>, which isn't output in the markup, instead I get this strange character.</p>
  
  <p>I had a similar thing with hacksaw recently bringing up this character here:
  <a href="https://github.com/ehousestudio/craft_hacksaw/issues/16" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/ehousestudio/craft_hacksaw/issues/16</a></p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on how to resolve this?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Could you copy and paste the strange character into the bottom field on this page and update your post with the results: http://www.freeformatter.com/string-utilities.html
Comments.UserDisplayName: Stephen Hamilton
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Comments.Text: This happens to me in my mamp environment as well. But not on my live server. I guess it's more of an server encoding problem (UTF8 vs. something else).
Comments.UserDisplayName: KSPR
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Comments.Text: @StephenHamilton here is the character's results on that page: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipbhqt75dxo0vvy/Screenshot%202016-10-05%2016.40.57.png?dl=0
  
  Further info on it: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0fffd/index.htm
Comments.UserDisplayName: joe
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Comments.Text: @KSPR this site is only local (on mamp) right now, DB is on utf8 general ci
Comments.UserDisplayName: joe
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Comments.CreationDate: 2016-10-05T15:45:32.650Z
Comments.Text: @joe Sounds like an environment issue then, could you maybe give us some more info on your web server setup?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Stephen Hamilton
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Comments.Text: @StephenHamilton you may have read my last answer to KSPR before I edited it, I incorrectly said it was on 2 servers (it is not). There is only 1 environment, running on MAMP, php 5.6.10 & apache.
Comments.UserDisplayName: joe
Tags: <richtext><whitespace>
Title: Rich Text field is producing weird space character instead of &nbsp;
ThreadText: # Rich Text field is producing weird space character instead of &nbsp;
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-10-05)
  
  1. Example from the frontend
  
     [![Example from the frontend](https://i.sstatic.net/jxu5B.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/jxu5B.png)
  2. Example in dev tools
  
  [![Example in dev tools](https://i.sstatic.net/sFEo2.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/sFEo2.png)
  
  3. If I "view-source" on the page
  
  [![If I "view-source" on the page](https://i.sstatic.net/kpati.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/kpati.png)
  
  4. Example from Rich Text Field
  
  [![Example from Rich Text Field](https://i.sstatic.net/9UzXn.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/9UzXn.png)
  
  5. Example from Rich Text Field HTML
  
  [![Example from Rich Text Field HTML](https://i.sstatic.net/UZYeT.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/UZYeT.png)
  
  This is a Rich Text field within a matrix, it's output in the template like this: `{{ block.text }}`
  
  If I pass the "|raw" filter I get the same.
  
  If you notice, the Rich Text Field has a   before the closing `</p>`, which isn't output in the markup, instead I get this strange character.
  
  I had a similar thing with hacksaw recently bringing up this character here:
  <https://github.com/ehousestudio/craft_hacksaw/issues/16>
  
  Any ideas on how to resolve this?
  
  **Tags:** richtext, whitespace
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Could you copy and paste the strange character into the bottom field on this page and update your post with the results: http://www.freeformatter.com/string-utilities.html  
  > **username_2**: This happens to me in my mamp environment as well. But not on my live server. I guess it's more of an server encoding problem (UTF8 vs. something else).  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 here is the character's results on that page: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipbhqt75dxo0vvy/Screenshot%202016-10-05%2016.40.57.png?dl=0  Further info on it: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0fffd/index.htm  
  > **username_0**: @username_2 this site is only local (on mamp) right now, DB is on utf8 general ci  
  > **username_1**: @username_0 Sounds like an environment issue then, could you maybe give us some more info on your web server setup?  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 you may have read my last answer to username_2 before I edited it, I incorrectly said it was on 2 servers (it is not). There is only 1 environment, running on MAMP, php 5.6.10 & apache.  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2017-12-06. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  I did contact Craft about this near the time this question was posted, they were not sure why it was occuring.
  
  I found that this issue was environment specific, it was specifically happening locally on MAMP4, with 5.6.\* using NGINX.
  
  I was unable to find the cause of the issue, but, in the end it was not happening on server environments so I decided to give up.
  
  
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