On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 09:51:01 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > At least for sh -- I didn't look at the other utilities -- the standard is > fairly explicit that <blank> characters delimit tokens, and <blank> is > locale-specific.
I would respectfully ask that this interpretation, should you choose to abide by it, be restricted to POSIX mode only. In bash mode, the only token delimiters within a line should be ASCII spaces and tabs. Not being able to guess how a command will be parsed into tokens is a complete disaster.