On 24/02/2006, at 4:30 AM, Miroslav Kure wrote:
recently I spent desperate hour debugging
ouch :(
one script which I use for extracting some information from Debian web pages and which suddenly stopped working. The cause of this problem was really simple -- the affected page simply started to use nonbreakable spaces instead of ordinary ones.
Nasty. :( Very hard to pick.
Unfortunately, nonbreakable space is not included in character class \s or [:space:] (aka whitespace). As it is usually not distinguishable from the ordinary space in most of the fonts, I would say that nonbreakable space should be added to the whitespace class in regexp libraries. What do our i18n experts think?
I'm no expert, but I've dealt with whitespace in different functions, and I agree. I might bring this up on my text editor list (it has a formidable grep capacity: BBEdit for Mac OSX).
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
