Problem
The documentation for unexpand claims
* that only initial whitespace is converted (unless -a is given)
* that only sequences of 2 or more spaces are converted
Neither of these is true for nondefault tab settings.
Configuration
unexpand (textutils) 2.0.21
RedHat Linux 8.0
RPM textutils-2.0.21-5
Repeat with...
Interior white space is converted in this example
$ echo 'a b' | unexpand -t4 | tr '\t' X
aXb
A single space is converted in this example
$ echo 'aaa b' | unexpand -t4 -a | tr '\t' X
aaaX b
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