How forum software deals with Unicode whitespace

[Robert Picard]

The following dataex output contains several uchar(160):

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input str16 A
"1     1  "
"1     2  "
"1     3  "
"1     4  "
"1     5  "
"1     6  "
"1     7  "
"1     8  "
"1     9  "
end

Do these Unicode whitespace characters survive?

[Robert Picard]

Apparently not!

. chartab A

   decimal  hexadecimal   character |     frequency    unique name
------------------------------------+-----------------------------
        32       \u0020             |            63    SPACE
        49       \u0031       1     |            10    DIGIT ONE
        50       \u0032       2     |             1    DIGIT TWO
        51       \u0033       3     |             1    DIGIT THREE
        52       \u0034       4     |             1    DIGIT FOUR
        53       \u0035       5     |             1    DIGIT FIVE
        54       \u0036       6     |             1    DIGIT SIX
        55       \u0037       7     |             1    DIGIT SEVEN
        56       \u0038       8     |             1    DIGIT EIGHT
        57       \u0039       9     |             1    DIGIT NINE
------------------------------------+-----------------------------

                                    freq. count   distinct
ASCII characters              =              81         10
Multibyte UTF-8 characters    =               0          0
Unicode replacement character =               0          0
Total Unicode characters      =              81         10