From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: noloader@gmail.com, 9747@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9747: M-x untabify with "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE" (aka "BYTE ORDER MARK")
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:57:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg0e744f.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zkgwsfo1.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:32:14 +0300")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>> I often use C-x h TAB and M-x untabify to format C, C++, and Java code.
>>
>> If a document has an errant UTF-8 byte order mark (a UTF-8 BOM is EF
>> BB BF), Emacs cannot always format the source file.
>>
>> For example, the attached Java file (JavaEncryptor.java-backup) has
>> 1845 BOMs sprinkled throughout. I'm not sure what editor put them in,
>> but Emacs does not properly handle some operations with them present.
>> If I strip the errant BOMs with the attached program
>> (efbbbf-strip.cpp), Emacs will properly format the file.
>
> "BYTE ORDER MARK" is the old name of the U+FEFF character.
> The new name is "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE".
So I don't think there's anything here to fix on the Emacs side --
zero-width spaces aren't necessarily supposed to be handled identically
to other white space here. So I'm closing this bug report.
--
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 23:27 bug#9747: C-x h TAB and M-x untabify Jeffrey Walton
2011-10-19 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-16 13:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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