Re: should a non-breaking space character be treated as whitespace in perl source?

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:20:34PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Should a non-breaking space character be treated as whitespace in
> perl source code?  It doesn't appear to be:

As far as I know code points outside the range 0-127 are invalid, except as
quotes for q, qq, etc, by default. Under use utf8; Unicode word characters
can also be used in identifiers.

I doubt that this will change in perl 5, because the parser is written in C,
and so it would be very hard work to replace it with something that was fully
Unicode aware.

Nicholas Clark