This character did not have text properties and therefore many commands did not work at that position. Reported by Bernt Hansen.
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2009-09-18 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
+ * org-agenda.el (org-agenda-highlight-todo): Fix text property
+ problem.
+
* org-mobile.el (org-mobile-capture-file): Use `mobileorg.org' as
the capture file, and make it non-configurable.
@@ -4784,7 +4784,7 @@ HH:MM."
(setq x (concat (substring x 0 (match-end 1))
(format org-agenda-todo-keyword-format
(match-string 2 x))
- " "
+ (org-add-props " " (text-properties-at 0 x))
(substring x (match-end 3)))))
x)))