As noted in issue #83, django-htmlmin currently removes . Normally, a programmer would expect that characters would be kept, as they are normally put into a document for a reason.
To keep the character, I modified the regex that is used to recognize whitespace. I had to use a lookahead regex expression in order to still profit from python's built-in \s constant.
Please note that the minified HTML will contain the Unicode character \xA0 instead of . This is because of BeautifulSoup's HTML rendering is consistent with the behaviour for other HTML entities.
andrewsmedina
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9 years ago
As noted in issue #83, django-htmlmin currently removes
. Normally, a programmer would expect that characters would be kept, as they are normally put into a document for a reason.To keep the character, I modified the regex that is used to recognize whitespace. I had to use a lookahead regex expression in order to still profit from python's built-in
\sconstant.Please note that the minified HTML will contain the Unicode character
\xA0instead of . This is because of BeautifulSoup's HTML rendering is consistent with the behaviour for other HTML entities.