Question

In PHP, what’s the most elegant way to get the complete list (array of strings) of all the Unicode whitespace characters, encoded in utf8?

I need that to generate test data.

Answer 1

This email (archived here) contains a list of all Unicode whitespace characters encoded in UTF-8, UTF-16, and HTML.

In the archived link look for the ‘utf8_whitespace_table’ function.

static $whitespace = array(
    "SPACE" => "\x20",
    "NO-BREAK SPACE" => "\xc2\xa0",
    "OGHAM SPACE MARK" => "\xe1\x9a\x80",
    "EN QUAD" => "\xe2\x80\x80",
    "EM QUAD" => "\xe2\x80\x81",
    "EN SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x82",
    "EM SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x83",
    "THREE-PER-EM SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x84",
    "FOUR-PER-EM SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x85",
    "SIX-PER-EM SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x86",
    "FIGURE SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x87",
    "PUNCTUATION SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x88",
    "THIN SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x89",
    "HAIR SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x8a",
    "ZERO WIDTH SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\x8b",
    "NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE" => "\xe2\x80\xaf",
    "MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE" => "\xe2\x81\x9f",
    "IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE" => "\xe3\x80\x80",
);