Bug 566961 - Show whitespace characters is missing some types
Summary: Show whitespace characters is missing some types
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 4.17   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2020-09-14 10:43 EDT by Pierre-Yves Bigourdan CLA
Modified: 2020-09-14 10:43 EDT (History)
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Description Pierre-Yves Bigourdan CLA 2020-09-14 10:43:14 EDT 
The "Show whitespace characters" functionality covers regular spaces, ideographic spaces, tabs, carriage returns and line feeds. However, other types of whitespace exist and I've recently hit a case where a NO-BREAK SPACE was incorrectly introduced in a file.

Wikipedia contains a comprehensive list of all unicode characters with White_Space property (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character). Rather than creating a separate option for each, I think it would be better to merge them all under the "ideographic spaces" one and rename it to "other whitespace characters".