ports/64845: Par must exclude non-breaking space from the class of space chars

[Jean-Baptiste Quenot]

The following reply was made to PR ports/64845; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot at caraldi.com>
To: Mark Murray <mark at grondar.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org,
	Greg Shenaut <gkshenaut at ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: ports/64845: Par must exclude non-breaking space from the class of space chars
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:41:31 +0200

 * Mark Murray:
 
 > Jean-Baptiste Quenot writes:
 >
 > > As suggested by Greg  Shenaut <gkshenaut at ucdavis.edu>, the following
 > > statement would be closer to the original intention of the upstreams
 > > author:
 > >
 > > if (isspace(c) && isascii(c)) ch = ' ';
 >
 > Aaah. So  the  author may  be  aware  of  this? Do  you know  if  he's
 > incorporating this in his current offering?
 
 Yes, I'm quoting his words above in the original PR.
 
 http://www.nicemice.net/par/
 
 « The latest version of Par, released on 2001-Apr-29 »
 
 Par does not seem to be updated on a regular basis, it is rather stable.
 So I don't think an update  will soon be available.  Discussion with the
 author has happened  by the end of  last year, and I  haven't heard from
 him  since  then.  Furthermore,  the  problem  only arises  on  FreeBSD,
 because it's  the only system I  know of that includes  the non-breaking
 space in the class of space characters in the Standard C Library.
 
 Regards,
 -- 
 Jean-Baptiste Quenot
 http://caraldi.com/jbq/