CASE 007 · Whitespace Encoding
The words are meaningless. The separators between them are not.
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About the technique
Whitespace channels exploit distinctions that are easy to miss visually but explicit at the code-point level. They are usually fragile because editors, copy/paste operations, or normalization can rewrite separators.
Questions
No. U+00A0 and U+0020 are distinct Unicode code points with different line-breaking behavior.
Usually not. Formatting and canonicalization can collapse or replace the exact separators used to carry data.