v5.21 now uses the same definition of white-space that this gives, so
there is no need to repeat it here, and is misleading because it says
this is different from the other definition.
=back
-The C<E<sol>x> processing within this class is an extended form.
-Besides the characters that are considered white space in normal C</x>
-processing, there are 5 others, recommended by the Unicode standard:
-
- U+0085 NEXT LINE
- U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
- U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
- U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR
- U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR
-
Note that skipping white space applies only to the interior of this
construct. There must not be any space between any of the characters
that form the initial C<(?[>. Nor may there be space between the