Github user PascalSchumacher commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/113#issuecomment-175231559
Hi Gary,
3.0 had the same behavior as 3.3.2, but I guess this is not a productive
discussion.
I know that `Character.isWhitespace` defines `\u00A0` as not a white space,
but for example guava
https://github.com/google/guava/blob/8fbeb9038cbe8b382b1ee188ae8459203cd04fb5/guava/src/com/google/common/base/CharMatcher.java#L1217
classifies it as whitespace.
If you want to keep the changed behavior I suggest at least to re-add the
`trim()` call or to remove the `Additionally <code>{@link #trim(String)}</code>
removes control characters (char <= 32) from both ends of this String.` part
of the java doc.
I'm not unicode expert, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space has a list of some more
non-breaking-space unicode characters.
As for the method name I guess the easy way out would be to add a flag to
normalize space. I can not come up with a good method name at the moment
`normalizeAllSpace`, is my best try.
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