Various code cleanup.

app/Http/Requests/JournalFormRequest.php

@@ -162,6 +162,30 @@ class JournalFormRequest extends Request
     {
         $string = $this->get($field) ?? '';
 
+        $search  = [
+            "\xa0", // non-breaking space
+            "\u{1680}", // OGHAM SPACE MARK
+            "\u{180E}", // MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
+            "\u{2000}", // EN QUAD
+            "\u{2001}", // EM QUAD
+            "\u{2002}", //EN SPACE
+            "\u{2003}", //EM SPACE
+            "\u{2004}", //THREE-PER-EM SPACE
+            "\u{2005}", //FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
+            "\u{2006}", //SIX-PER-EM SPACE
+            "\u{2007}", //FIGURE SPACE
+            "\u{2008}", //PUNCTUATION SPACE
+            "\u{2009}", //THIN SPACE
+            "\u{200A}", //HAIR SPACE
+            "\u{200B}", //ZERO WIDTH SPACE
+            "\u{202F}", //NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
+            "\u{205F}", //MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
+            "\u{3000}", //IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE
+            "\u{FEFF}", //	ZERO WIDTH NO -BREAK SPACE
+        ];
+        $replace = "\x20"; // plain old normal space
+        $string  = str_replace($search, $replace, $string);
+
         return trim($string);
     }
 }