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Re: making the wide character properties Unicode compatible

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: making the wide character properties Unicode compatible
From: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:56:28 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <14799.18936.302663.551703@honolulu.ilog.fr><200009252134.OAA25443@geoffk.org>

Geoff Keating writes:

> I'd have thought of 00A0 as a control character, if it's not
> whitespace.  It certainly doesn't seem to have a printable
> representation...

U00A0 is a symbol like all other ISO 8859-1 upper half characters. Its
only oddity is that its glyph is empty/transparent/void.

Look for example at the ISO-8859-15 chart (p. 5) in

    http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso8859/8859-15-en.pdf

Printable characters have a white background there, control characters
have a grey one. The one for U00A0 is white.

Bruno

References:
- making the wide character properties Unicode compatible
  - From: Bruno Haible
- Re: making the wide character properties Unicode compatible
  - From: Geoff Keating

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