Re: html / emacs / email / gnus: 0xa0 classified as "whitespace" but not treated as whitespace

[Kevin Rodgers]

[Please don't top-post.]

Daniel Ortmann wrote:
> Correction, 0xa0 should actually be treated as whitespace but is not.
> I.e. fill-paragraph and friends don't treat it as whitespace:
>
> Here is what describe-char-after says:
>
> --------------------------------
>   character:   (04240, 2208, 0x8a0)
>     charset: latin-iso8859-1 (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 
(ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO-IR-100)
>  code point: 32
>      syntax: whitespace
>    category:  :This character counts as a space for indentation 
purposes.   l:Latin
> buffer code: 0x81 0xA0
>   file code: not encodable by coding system nil
>        font: 
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
> --------------------------------

Latin 1 0xA0 is named NO-BREAK SPACE for a reason.  It should not be
treated the same as ASCII 0x20, which is the SPACE character.

--
Kevin