diff doesn't treat non-breaking space as whitespace
Bug #31738 reported by
Andrew Pam
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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diffutils (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
When "diff" is run with the "-b" or "-w" options, it fails to treat non-breaking space characters (U+00A0) as whitespace.
Changed in diffutils: | |
status: | Rejected → Unconfirmed |
Changed in diffutils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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From what I understand, the non-breaking space character is a printable graphical punctuation that must not be considered whitespace.