On 31/05/2006 8:17 PM, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Whitespace is a silly term, anyway (IMHO); is there such a >> thing as a space that is not white? > > Yes, if you go back to the term's origins in printshops. A solid > block of ink is space, not print, but it's not whitespace. We've > kept the word alive, even if the meaning's drifted (see also "tab"). > And if we didn't say "whitespace", how would we distinguish between > "space characters" meaning " " and "whitespace characters" > meaning " \t\r\n\v"? (OK, has anyone met a "\v" in the wild?) >
I've found a not-always-white space: U+1680 OGHAM SPACE MARK -- the glyph is non-blank in "stemmed" fonts. I'm surprised that one of the billions of people who use Ogham for day-to-day correspondence hasn't pointed this out to me already :-) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
