<i18n dev> RFR: 8356980: Better handling of non-breaking space

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Thu, 15 May 2025 03:18:30 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> maybe this is just a translation error and a simple space can be used instead, like in all the other properties in these files?
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> Maybe, but sometimes it is intentional. CLDR has once switched normal spaces to NBSP/NNBSP for certain locales (https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-14032). And we cannot tell if it is intentional or not.

> So, this exactly reverses what was done in the fix for JDK-8301991

No, it doesn't. I still agree with that fix -- the overwhelming majority of characters should indeed be UTF-8 instead of unicode sequences.

This is about a very specific character, that is impossible to visually tell the difference on screen from ordinary space.

Technically, it might be that some of these lines in the properties files are reversals of JDK-8301991, but that's just basically coincidence.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25234#discussion_r2090692617