Re: Using .XCompose

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:24:58PM +0000, Ajith R wrote:
> I was trying to find if NBSP are getting added in my .XCompose file
> 
> I am using Kate. How can I accomplish that in Kate?

I googled <show non-breaking spaces in kate editor>.  The first result
didn't talk about them at all.  The second result was to a PDF which is
apparently their official documentation.
<https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applications/katepart/katepart.pdf>.

In it, there is a brief mention of some option you can toggle called
"Show Non-Printable Spaces", whose description is "Show/hide bounding
box around non-printable spaces."

I have no idea what they consider to be a "non-printable space".  You
could try it.

> > (I don't even know whether you're in a UTF-8 encoding, though, so
> > who knows whether those are even the correct bytes for an NBSP in>
> > your locale.  You're better off using \u00A0 instead.)
> 
> No, I don't want to use them. Just wanted to know if they were creeping into my file.

I meant use in your bash + grep command.  The earlier attempts to use
$'\x00A0' or $'\x00\xA0' were not correct.