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Re: [selectors4] :blank, ::first-letter, and what a whitespace character is

From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 08:08:44 -0700
Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-Id: <9406CC57-D0C0-4EED-97D4-DA26E4C5F24F@gmail.com>
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>


> On Aug 25, 2015, at 7:53 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We're not trying to be fancy here, just sync up our definitions of
> "basic whitespace".  This isn't about all the various typographic
> types of whitespace used in text, just the types of whitespace that
> show up in documents to separate elements and such.  That's just the
> ascii space (U+0020), ascii tab (U+0009), and the three ascii line
> feeds (U+000A, U+000C, and U+000D).

NBSP is extremely common for showing up in documents to separate elements and such. Mostly where it's not desired, often because of the way it got typed into some editor. I think it should be included. It's not a request to be fancy. It's really very basic and common. 
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