Why treating U+3000 as whitespace by default?

[HomeGoods]

By default, Preferences - Editor - Format - XML - Whitespaces has U+3000 ticked.
This looks too radical to me; even destructive. U+3000 is used on purpose in many cases.
What's the specific reason to have it ticked by default?

Well, I can just untick it and forget about it. So I'm rather just curious.

[Radu]

Hi,

I would also agree with you at a first glance. My colleague who added this character to the default list is not here right now but we'll discuss this when he gets back and update the forum thread with an answer.

Regards,
Radu

[HomeGoods]

And the consequence is...?

[Radu]

Hi,

Oops, forgot to update this.

When the Format and Indent toolbar action is called on XML content and it encounters certain characters that it considers to be whitespaces (characters from that particular list) it will collapse them (consecutive whitespace characters become only one), replace them with a single regular space character and possibly replace them with a line break if the text line became too large.

In Oxygen 17.1 (which we plan to release in about one or two weeks) by default the U+3000 character will not be checked any more in that particular preferences page.

Regards,
Radu

[HomeGoods]

Radu,
Thanks for the update. I confirmed that on the build 2015093018, U+3000 was not checked in the whitespace preference by default. I think that's the right decision.