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I'm interested in compactifications of some non-separable metric spaces of functions. For concreteness, consider $D[0,1]$, the space of right-continuous real-valued functions on $[0,1]$ with left limits, and give it the uniform (supremum) norm $\|f\|_\infty=\sup_t |f(t)|$.

The Alexandroff one-point compactification $D^*$ of $D[0,1]$ is compact, and $(D[0,1],\,\|\cdot\|_\infty)$ is a dense subspace of it. Is $D^*$ separable?

If it isn't, $D^*$ is a somewhat interesting example of a compact space that isn't separable (this question)

If it is, $(D[0,1],\,\|\cdot\|_\infty)$ and $D^*$ are an interesting example of a non-separable subspace of a separable space (this question)

But I have no idea which.

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The space $D^*$ is not separable, because otherwise $D[0,1]$ would be separable, being an open subspace of a separable space.

Alex Ravsky
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