Error converting data type varchar to numeric - maybe non printable character?

Hello all. I'm having some trouble converting a column in my table from varchar(50) to decimal(20,4). I've also tried to convert it to int and had no luck. In trying to find the records with non numeric data, I ran this query...
SELECT *
FROM [table]
WHERE [column] not like '%[^0-9]%'
My result set was 32 rows where the field in question had zeros. This doesn't make sense to me. If it was a real zero, it would have been excluded from the query.
So, I flipped it around and ran the following query, and got the same results.
SELECT *
FROM [table]
WHERE [column] = '0'
If it's really a string 0, what would keep it from converting to a numeric type? I'm wondering if there are non printable characters in there because this table was populated via SSIS package using a flat file.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
WeeLass

I have discovered one of the values that will not convert. It is '-1.2317 ' and I tried RTRIM and those trailing spaces stay there.
It has a length of 8, and ASCII value of 45, and converting to varbinary gives 0x2D312E3233313709.
The 45 and 2D both point to a negative sign. This one does indeed have a negative sign, but it's in the front, not trailing. Also, another value that was failing was not negative, but did have the trailing spaces.
Any ideas on how to figure out what those spaces actually are? Hopefully, if I know that, then I can know how to get rid of them.
WeeLass
It may be a hard space
RTRIM trims only soft spaces
try this and see if works
REPLACE(ColumnName,CHAR(160),'')
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