On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 08:45:44AM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Anno domini 2020 Tue, 19 May 08:09:46 +0200
> marc scripsit:
> > Hello
> >
> > This is a bit unrelated, but might be worth warning people about. Some editors
> > no longer seem to be satisfied inserting plain spaces, but now deem it necessary
> > the extra bytes <C2><A0>. This might break small parsers which only consider
> > ' ' and \t as a delimiter. 'cat -A' will help you find them
> >
> > Below is the fstab entry that you included in your mail, run through 'cat -A'
> >
> > > and my fstab:$
> > > '# cat /etc/fstab$
> > > $
> > > # <file system>M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- <dir>M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- <type>M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- <options>M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM-
> > > <dump>M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- <pass>$
> > > /dev/mmcblk0p1M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- /bootM-BM- M-BM- M-BM- vfatM-BM- M-BM- M-BM- defaultsM-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- 0M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- 2$
> > > /dev/mmcblk0p2M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- /M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- ext4M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- defaults,noatimeM-BM- M-BM- M-BM-
> > > 0M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- 1$
> > > /dev/zram0 M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- swapM-BM- M-BM- M-BM- swapM-BM- M-BM- M-BM- pri=1M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- 0M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- M-BM- 0'$
> > > $
>
> Which editors do this?

And why would they insist on using non-breaking spaces?

-- hendrik

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> > marc
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