It doesn't seem odd to me. Consider an HTML page with that "sentence" displayed on it. If you ask the viewer of the page how many words are in the sentence, then surely you will get the answer 3?
On 28 March 2011 16:55, malcolm.wallace <malcolm.wall...@me.com> wrote: > Does anyone else think it odd that Prelude.words will break a string at a > non-breaking space? > > Prelude> words "abc def\xA0ghi" > ["abc","def","ghi"] > > I would have expected this to be the obvious behaviour: > > Prelude> words "abc def\xA0ghi" > ["abc","def\160ghi"] > > Regards, > Malcolm > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- Colin Adams Preston, Lancashire, ENGLAND () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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