GNU bug report logs - #30681
What characters are in [[:space:]]?

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Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 17:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 30681-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#30681: What characters are in [[:space:]]?
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 02:22:39 -0800

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 10:44 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> In every one of the 818 locales installed on a Fedora 27 system, I see
>> the same five bytes:
>
> Aren't some non-ASCII characters also spaces, in some locales?

Sorry I was unclear.
Those are the single-byte ones.
In multi-byte locales, there are also some others (length two bytes or
more), indeed.
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