On Thu, 15 May 2025 02:25:30 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I believe it is OK to leave these as UTF-8 native characters, as these files >> are l10n resource bundles. If we wanted to replace those look-alike spaces >> to unicode escapes, other characters may also need the same treatment, such >> as hyphen-minus, quotations, etc. In fact there are lot more look alikes >> defined in the unicode consortium >> (https://www.unicode.org/Public/security/latest/confusables.txt), and I >> don't think we would want to convert them. > > maybe this is just a translation error and a simple space can be used > instead, like in all the other properties in these files? Maybe, but sometimes it is intentional. CLDR has once switched normal spaces to NBSP/NNBSP for certain locales (https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-14032). And we cannot tell if it is intentional or not. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25234#discussion_r2090140891
