> Following up myself, the situation is that I need to check if a given 
> value consists of one or more blanks. Not sure if these actually count 
> as whitespaces?

There is no unicode character called blank.
If you mean a space character (32) then that is white
If you mean  (for example) a non breaking space (160) that is non-white.

David

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