"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
That's a bug, but deleting spaces (any ASCII space or tab
characters) in Japanese is data corruption, pure and simple. Don't
fix it by breaking Japanese.
The Japanese fixed it by breaking English. And French. And
Croatian. And...
We'll revert to the state of affairs when things worked for European
languages, and then we'll accept correct fixes for Japanese. Which is
how we should have dealt with it in the first place.