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- Subject: Re: [Q] handling 0xC2A0 (space in utf8)
- From: "Peter Harris" <lua@...>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:41:12 -0400
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:20 PM, V S P wrote:
> I have spent about 2 days to figure out why certain things do not
> get recognized by my compiler, and it turns out that it only happens if
> I put a space preceeding my identifiers in the web page.
Ah, ha!
You can't put a (visible) space preceeding anything in HTML. It will
be dropped by the client. You probably have a broken HTML editor (most
are) that is inserting (non-breaking space) characters behind
your back.
The correct way to adjust visible space is to use CSS. should
only ever be used to keep a single entity from line breaking.
> So I am tracing it down from the web page, to json, to PHP, to lua
> and see that I am getting 0xC2A0 from the web page when I enter
> the 'space'.
Yup, 0xC2A0 is UTF-8 speak for NBSP.
NBSP isn't a space. It's an NBSP. Which is a character designed to
look like it is a space, but it really isn't. Treating an NBSP as a
space is probably a bug anyway.
Peter Harris
