Whitespace
Whitespace are characters that have the Unicode "White_Space" property in the Unicode properties list. Common to these characters is that none of them are visible when rendered and as such their only purpose is to represent either horizontal or vertical space.
This includes:
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all characters in the Unicode Separator categories, and
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the following characters in the Other, Control category:
- Character tabulation (
U+0009) - Line Feed (LF) (
U+000A) - Line Tabulation (
U+000B) - Form Feed (FF) (
U+000C) - Carriage Return (CR) (
U+000D) - Next Line (NEL) (
U+0085)
- Character tabulation (