[Haskell-cafe] bug in Prelude.words?

[Colin Adams]

It doesn't seem odd to me.

Consider an HTML page with that "sentence" displayed on it. If you ask the
viewer of the page how many words are in the sentence, then surely you will
get the answer 3?

On 28 March 2011 16:55, malcolm.wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com> wrote:

> Does anyone else think it odd that Prelude.words will break a string at a
> non-breaking space?
>
> Prelude> words "abc def\xA0ghi"
> ["abc","def","ghi"]
>
> I would have expected this to be the obvious behaviour:
>
> Prelude> words "abc def\xA0ghi"
> ["abc","def\160ghi"]
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
>
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