Re: html / emacs / email / gnus: 0xa0 classified as "whitespace" but not treated as whitespace

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

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Daniel Ortmann wrote:
 > Correction, 0xa0 should actually be treated as whitespace but is not.
 > I.e. fill-paragraph and friends don't treat it as whitespace:
 >
 > Here is what describe-char-after says:
 >
 > --------------------------------
 >   character:   (04240, 2208, 0x8a0)
 >     charset: latin-iso8859-1 (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 
(ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO-IR-100)
 >  code point: 32
 >      syntax: whitespace
 >    category:  :This character counts as a space for indentation 
purposes.   l:Latin
 > buffer code: 0x81 0xA0
 >   file code: not encodable by coding system nil
 >        font: 
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
 > --------------------------------

Latin 1 0xA0 is named NO-BREAK SPACE for a reason.  It should not be
treated the same as ASCII 0x20, which is the SPACE character.

-- 
Kevin