-// isspace('ê') in the C locale which seems to be broken to me, but we have to
-// live with this by checking that the character is a 7 bit one - even if this
-// may fail to detect some spaces (I don't know if Unicode doesn't have
+// isspace('\xEA') in the C locale which seems to be broken to me, but we have
+// to live with this by checking that the character is a 7 bit one - even if
+// this may fail to detect some spaces (I don't know if Unicode doesn't have