Re: cleartext signatures - trailing white space - proposal

[Stuart A Yeates <stuart.yeates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Grigg wrote:

> Perl uses this definition of whitespace:
>
>   \s      A whitespace character      [ \t\n\r\f]
>
> which includes form feeds as 0x0c (I think).

Modern versions of perl also have a unicode compliant definition of 
whitespace (and other things) see:
http://perl.active-venture.com/pod/perlretut-morecharacter.html

> Java uses the java.lang.Character.isWhitespace()
> method, which probably depends on the character
> set!

java.lang.Character.isWhitespace() operates solely on chars, which are 
unicode.

> I don't know about Python, or Microsoft languages.

Modern versions of Python do unicode, I believe.

cheers
stuart

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