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Re: [External] : Re: Strange whitespaces.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Strange whitespaces.
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:45:20 +0300

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:32:24 +0000
> 
> > They did.  We now highlight any non-ASCII character whose Unicode
> > general category is "Space Separator" (or Zs for short).  That
> > includes EN SPACE.
> > 
> > > Note that `nobreak-char-display' highlights all
> > > no-break (aka "hard") characters, not just the
> > > no-break space.  IOW, it highlights hard hyphens
> > > (code point 8209) as well as hard spaces.
> > 
> > It highlights much more [in Emacs 28], see above.
> 
> All the more need for an ability to highlight or
> not highlight individually.

That'd be a different feature.  This feature is for making sure the
user is aware of unusual characters that might display as something
innocent.  If someone wants a different feature, they should turn this
special display off, and program whatever they want instead.



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