Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

[Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>]

Alastair McKinstry wrote:

> As this is not a shell-specific problem, I was really wondering if the
> scripting languages had encountered it, particularly the 'we support
> Unicode' ones... like Perl and Python...

fred@trap:~$ python -c 'print "hello world"'
  File "<string>", line 1
    print "hello world"
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

fred@trap:~$ perl -e 'print "hello world\n";'
Unrecognized character \xC2 at -e line 1.

fred@trap:~$ ruby -e 'print "hello world\n"'
-e:1: Invalid char `\302' in expression
-e:1: Invalid char `\240' in expression



        Frederic