Re: [pre-lexer-2 1/4] command: Factor command name matching out of command.c.

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> I've no doubt this patch is an improvement.
> However, I'm worried about how this is going to work with non-ascii encodings.
> For example some recent syntax files that I've seen have UTF-8 "hard" spaces 
> (0xc2 0x0a) instead of the normal ' '.

Does SPSS actually treat a "hard space" as white space?  Looking
at the C, Java, and XML standards, none of them appear to treat
hard spaces as white space; it appears to be rejected as invalid.

(Your larger point still stands; I'm not disputing that.)
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