On Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 20:24 Neil Jenkins <ne...@fastmailteam.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, at 14:50, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>
> Just on the question of use of "whitespace":
> I concur that it's a term of art, and that even if we were to try to
> neutralize it by referencing ABNF, ABNF also calls it whitespace (i.e.,
> "WSP" and its derivatives).
>
> On the other hand, I believe there's no loss of precision or generality by
> simply calling it "space" either.
>
>
> Personally, I think this is less clear as "space" is liable to be
> interpreted as just the Space character (U+0020), rather than any whitespace
> character <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character>. So I
> would prefer to keep the current text.
>

You could say "any space character".

-MSK
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