In the C# Language Specification what is meant by "Any character with Unicode class Zs"?

Question

Just reading a web page here on the C# language specificaionhttps://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664665(v=vs.71).aspx there is some text that says "Any character with Unicode class Zs", in the context of defining white space.

Please, what is meant by "Any character with Unicode class Zs"?

It might be linked to regular expressions, adding regex tag.

Answer 1

Unicode codepoints have a classification assigned to each of them. Codepoints in the Zs class belong to the "Separator, Space" category.

Answer 2

It means whitespace characters (separators). Check out this link http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Zs/list.htm