On 5/16/17 6:33 AM, Robert Elz wrote: > If we start having shell parsing differently depending on what locale the > user happens to be using, we may as well all give up now, and go find > something else to do.
Too late: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_03 7. If the current character is an unquoted <blank>, any token containing the previous character is delimited and the current character shall be discarded. <blank> is locale-dependent: 3.74 Blank Character (<blank>) One of the characters that belong to the blank character class as defined via the LC_CTYPE category in the current locale. In the POSIX locale, a <blank> character is either a <tab> or a <space>. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
