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While having the unit test case writing for French and Czech localization, on doing

  assertThat(formattedDecimal).isEqualTo("8 771,23");
where formattedDecimal is a string ,
had a result
org.junit.ComparisonFailure: 
Expected :"8 771,23"
Actual   :"8 771,23"
why it failed? did not understand, please guide what i am doing wrong here!!
                Is formattedDecimal a String, or some other type?  It would need to be a String for this assertion to pass, since you're comparing it to a String.
– Dawood ibn Kareem
                May 10, 2017 at 2:58
                OK, use a debugger to inspect the value of formattedDecimal to make sure there aren't any unexpected characters in there, for example, a non-breaking space instead of an ordinary space.
– Dawood ibn Kareem
                May 10, 2017 at 3:00
                After debugging did not seen the difference by visuals but interestingly when copied Actual to do isEqualTo, it worked. Really confused
– Jitesh Upadhyay
                May 10, 2017 at 3:07
maybe your formattedDecimal including some control letters that can't see in the console. have you tried this?
assertThat("foo\bo").isNotEqualTo("foo");// ok
          //   ^--- it print "foo"             
assertThat(formattedDecimal.getBytes()).isEqualTo("8 771,23".getBytes())
        
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