Perhaps it would be more clear to say "whitespace" instead. Or are there types of whitespace other than 'spaces, tabs and newlines', which do not get ignored?
I think the locale comes into play here too, so saying anything specific would be wrong. And what is the difference between `blank' and `whitespace'? I don't see it... _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils