Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Some people don't want a _desktop_ PC. Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:37:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: O.W.L. Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <56426955$0$62656$c3e8da3$dbd57e7@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:332757 Snit wrote: > On 11/12/15, 3:15 PM, in article n232sv$sid$3@dont-email.me, "Peter > Köhlmann" wrote: > >> Fabian Russell wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:33:17 -0800, Steve Carroll wrote: >>> >>>>> >>>>> Blanks? OS X handles *spaces* just fine... but what is a blank? >>>> >>>> LOL! You have a 'Master in IT' and you've never heard (blank) spaces >>>> referred to as blanks? >>>> >>> >>> You are both fscked. >>> >>> The correct term in this case is "white space." >>> >>> The term "white space" refers to anything that would be invisible >>> in a editor or in output. It could be a TAB or other non-printable >>> char. >> >> Except that a space (blank) *is* visible in an editor as well as in output. >> It is *not* a control-char > > Again correct. And I have noted I may have been too harsh on you for your > terminology of "blank". It is not common but I accept you do not speak > English as your primary language and it was not hard to understand. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Control_characters https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Blank_characters