Posted by Stephan Eggermont-3 on Sep 25, 2017; 1:21pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Is-a-non-break-space-whitespace-tp4971514p4971926.html

On 25-09-17 09:53, Richard Sargent wrote:
> Rather than off-the-cuffing anything, please honour the Unicode Character
> Properties. Refer to
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property#Whitespace, among
> others.

That is a good idea. And it won't help you if you scrape data from the
web, as you'll find plenty of bad encoding. And unclarity over which
version of which standard was used (see mongolian vowel separator)

Stephan