Hi, I'm investigating #284724, which is about problems caused with NON-BREAK SPACE. This is a character (that can be typed as AltGr-Space in the French and some other keymaps) that looks like a space, but has the added semantics 'don't break a line here', in word processing and display software.
This has uses in e.g. presenting code fragments in documents, where you want to guarantee that the line is displayed without being line-breaks. However if you cut-and-paste the code, the NBS character is not interpreted as a space, so 'ls a' is interpreted by e.g. bash as a single command, not a command and an argument. Does anyone have copies (or pointers to free versions of) SUS and any rulings on this matter? What are developers opinions on this: should this be treated as a shell (and other scripting language) bug, ie. should all characters in the class [:space:] be treated as a token seperator in shells/languages, or just the ASCII SPACE? Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
