A few weeks ago I was helping my wife apply to medical school. One school in particular had an online application with a form to answer all the questions. Eac

A few weeks ago I was helping my wife apply to medical school. One school in particular had an online application with a form to answer all the questions. Each essay question had strict character limits. After spending hours writing, proofing, spell checking, and character couting the essays, my wife tried to copy/paste them into the online form. No dice - over the character limit. She called me in to help. I tried Word => SciTE => form, Word => Notepad => form, and a few others. Nothing worked. Finally, I pulled up Firebug and did a little digging. Turns out this application was using a rich text editor that was converting any two spaces to a space +   thus counting two spaces as 7 characters. Needless to say, I did a find/replace for two spaces to one space and her application went through fine. We haven't used two spaces since.