Python NBSP DWIM

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:
> (Oh, and for the record, there are at least two non-breaking spaces in
> Unicode, U+00A0 "NO-BREAK SPACE" and U+202F "NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE".)
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf

And U+FEFF "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE", notable because it's also used as
the byte-order mark (as its counterpart, U+FFFE, is unallocated). I've been
fighting with VLC Media Player over the font it uses for subtitles; for
some bizarre reason, that font represents U+FEFF not with zero pixels of
emptiness, but with a box containing the letters "ZWN" "BSP" on two lines.
Yeah, because that totally takes up zero width and looks like blank space.

ChrisA
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