Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes:
> Perhaps the techniques from tests/wc/wc-nbsp.sh could be used?
> Maybe something like:
>
> check_space() {
> char="$1"
> # Use -L to determine whether NBSP is printable.
> # FreeBSD 11 and OS X treat NBSP as non printable ?
> test "$(env printf "=$char=" | wc -L)" = 3 &&
> test $(env printf "=$char=" | wc -w) = 2
> }
>
> if check_space '\u2007'; then
> ...
> fi
Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't work. Any issue with
skipping based on $host_os for this test and for fold-spaces.sh?
I was thinking of testing "printf '\u00A0' | ./src/tr -d '[:blank:]'"
but that won't work since 'tr' operates on bytes and U+00A0 is
represented as 0xc2 0xa0 in UTF-8.
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