Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:18:20 +0100 From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot@caraldi.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is non-breaking space a space? Message-ID: <20031202081818.GA1463@watt.intra.caraldi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031202052858.GA11469@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20031202003105.GA11013@watt.intra.caraldi.com> <20031202052858.GA11469@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Erik Trulsson: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:31:07AM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote: > > > In /usr/src/share/mklocale, the file la_LN.ISO8859-1.src for example > > contains a SPACE definition that includes the non-breaking space. > > It seems that it is so since the beginning of FreeBSD, but is there > > some reference, some standard that states whether NBSP is considered > > a space or not? > > If you look at the locale definitions found at > http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG15 it would seem that NBSP should be > considered as a space character, but there might be some other > standard somewhere else that says differently. That's also my opinion. Let's explain the whole story: I'm reformatting my email messages with textproc/par, and I noticed since I'm using FreeBSD that all non-breaking spaces are converted to spaces during filtering, just because isspace(160) is true. Of course, if I put non-breaking spaces in my text, I'm not expecting the lines to be broken on them, and I don't want them to be filtered out, because nbsps make sense when used appropriately. After a while, I discovered that the issue is related to locales. And IMHO it makes sense not to consider nbsp as a space. Where shall I report the problem? Cheers, --=20 Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/ --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zErK9xx3BCMc9gsRAuruAJ42/ij62bd5hD1Xch6dbjjl/yKI8gCbBmYd wVq5XHBYDUx2A8Y6XIQmF8Y= =ATl5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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