Special character constants

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1063 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>... If we drive this to the extreme, can we really
>depend on spaces to produce certain visible space on some output device?
>Or is it just so that the *probability* of space-characters producing
>some space on output devices is higher than for tab-characters?

The latter.  The interpretation of space is mostly agreed on; not so for tab.
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