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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 10 months ago

I did a lot of web scrapping this week at work and it's looks like that character is used a lot on XPaths and CSS selectors. I only noticed it because VS Code put a yellow box around the character and give you a warning that that character is not a whitespace.