- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:42:01 -0500
- To: Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se> wrote: > Den 2010-01-15 20.27, skrev "Aryeh Gregor" <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>: > ... >> Sometimes it's collapsed, sometimes ignored, sometimes treated as >> significant, and sometimes this depends on whether it's ASCII >> whitespace or Unicode whitespace. > > What is that supposed to mean? Yes, there are more "whitespace" characters > (which is a term with several interpretations) in Unicode than in ASCII. But > that does not seem to be what you are aiming at here. I'm not clear what you're asking me. HTML5 defines at least two different types of whitespace: what it calls "space characters" (0x9, 0xa, 0xc, 0xd, 0x20), and what it calls "White_Space characters" (Unicode characters with the White_Space property). See <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#space-character>. The two types of whitespace are treated differently in some ways by the standard. For instance, "a set of space-separated tokens" <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#set-of-space-separated-tokens> count only "space characters", not "White_Space characters", as space.
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