Subject: Re: bug#9608: 24.0.50; Emacs lisp reader thinks no-break space is 0x08a0 (should be 0x00a0)
From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
To: "David M. Cooke" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:44:26 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

"David M. Cooke" <[email-masked]> writes:

> The changes to the whitespace handling were introduced in bzr revision
> 78902 (on 2007-07-30, which is a few weeks after a discussion about
> handling NO-BREAK SPACE on the mailing list).

That was before the unicode merge.

> I'm guessing using 0x8a0 was just a thinko.

No, it was the correct number at that time, when Emacs used the mule
encoding internally.

Andreas.

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