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<p class="MsoPlainText">So, how would zic interpret “<space><space><space>\t\t\t”, as on the Antarctica/Troll zone?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">David Braverman<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu] <br>
Sent: Sunday 4 May 2014 13:59<br>
To: David Braverman; 'tz@iana.org'<br>
Subject: Re: [tz] Troll rule parsing issue</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">David Braverman wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> What is the rule regarding continuation lines on zone definitions?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">It's given in the zic man page, which says "Fields are separated from
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<p class="MsoPlainText">one another by one or more white space characters." Tabs and spaces are
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<p class="MsoPlainText">both white space characters, and it's immaterial which is used. The
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<p class="MsoPlainText">other white space characters (other than newline itself) are '\f', '\r',
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<p class="MsoPlainText">and '\v'.<o:p></o:p></p>
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