Summary

Non-breaking spaces:

 

are not encoded properly in Confluence REST API and is displayed as the character  instead

Environment

Seen on the following browser:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Edge

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new page
2. Insert the following text:

   Test one
   
   Test Two 
   

   

3. Get the page using REST API GET commands, example:

   <baseURL>/rest/api/content?type=page&expand=body.view&title=<Page Title>&spaceKey=<Space Key>
   

   Expected Results

   The

    

   are displayed as spaces

Actual Results

  are displayed as the character  instead

Notes

1. Can be easily observed from our own documentation site, link. From the REST API GET link, the  character is shown instead of space( ) in the string <p>The following SVG images (Scalable Vector Graphics)". See Page Storage Format link of the page which shows

    

   in place of the  character