[ethbr1]

There's functionally little difference between spaces being non-printable characters, unless there are examples of text editors that do not render offset empty space when they're used.

Spaces vs tabs, sure, that's an argument.

But it doesn't seem reasonable to argue that {something that is visible in a text editor} is different than any other kind of character.

It's not like Python was using the bell ASCII or somesuch.