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I believe Lemmy removed your blank character?
At least, it doesn't seem to show up when I try to select it or navigate around it with arrow keys, nor does the formatting look unusual.
It's usually possible to type Unicode characters by just inputting their codepoint/number. This kind of varies between desktop environments, but how it works for GNOME (and possibly others) is described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/tips-specialchars.html.en#ctrlshiftu
Alternatively, you can also change your keyboard layout to include it. On X11, you'd do that with Xmodmap. Looks like there are some alternatives for Wayland, but I don't know what to recommend there.
Well, and another option would be to write a script which copies that character to your clipboard and then create a keyboard shortcut to call that script.
For copying to the clipboard, you can use
xclip
on X11 andwl-clipboard
on Wayland.Thank you very much! I'll try this when I get home tonight.