>> Basically, when entering data in \lyricmode, U+0020 SPACE correctly
>> breaks syllables, but U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE (which is the
>> default space on Japanese keyboard layouts) does not: the syllables
>> separated with that character all wind up on one note. Shouldn't
>> we break syllables on *any* Unicode whitespace character (except
>> for the nonbreaking spaces, which I believe have different Unicode
>> character properties)?
>
> \lyricmode does not mean "Paste arbitrary text here".
>
> LilyPond intentionally uses exclusively the ASCII character range
> for syntactic purposes. Everything else can be part of identifiers
> or words. That makes LilyPond documents robust against changes in
> Unicode.
I second that. Additionally, it's trivial to search and replace all
Unicode whitespace with ASCII whitespace in case this is what the user
wants.
Werner
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