Bug 18491

Summary:	JavaScriptCore should treat nbsp just like any other space
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Eric Seidel (no email) <eric>
Component:	JavaScriptCore	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	Normal	CC:	ap, barraclough, mjs, ovafai, zwarich
Priority:	P2
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	PC
OS:	OS X 10.5
URL:	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23613

Description Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-04-14 08:45:46 PDT

JavaScriptCore should treat nbsp just like any other space

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23613
is the mozilla bug.  Seems we have the same bug.

Comment 1 Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-04-17 07:42:49 PDT

http://eseidel.com/webkit_bugs/18491/nbsp.html

Is a test case.  Uploading said test-case to bugzilla seems to cause a 500 error.  Not sure why.

Comment 2 Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-04-17 07:49:42 PDT

The right fix seems to be to hack dftables.

Comment 3 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-04-21 09:06:33 PDT

We have a (failing) test for this in ecma_3/Unicode/uc-002.js. Note that uc-001.js also fails, and that is tricky, see bug 4931 and bug 10183.

Comment 4 Cameron Zwarich (cpst) 2008-09-18 04:04:12 PDT

The regular expression issue is bug 20966, and was fixed by the introduction of WREC on 32-bit x86 (or at least Mac and Windows), and by r36612 on other platforms. Is there any other case where we treat a non-breaking space differently, or can this bug be closed?

Comment 5 Gavin Barraclough 2011-06-15 01:15:18 PDT

nbsp works in regular expressions, source text, the bugs Alexey linked to are marked fixed, and ecma_3/Unicode/uc-002.js passes.  Works for me.