[New-bugs-announce] [issue10567] Unicode space character \u200b unrecognised a space

[pbnan]

New submission from pbnan <piotr at banaszkiewicz.org>:

Python:
Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Oct 20 2010, 03:21:03) 
[GCC 4.5.1] on linux2

Code:
>>> c = u'\u200b'
>>> c.isspace()
False

In both 2.6, 3.1 it works.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html

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components: Unicode
messages: 122690
nosy: pbnan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unicode space character \u200b unrecognised a space
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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