On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 09:21:37PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > After investigating a bit I realized that what I called utf8 space is a > 'nobreakspace' so it's ok fmt to replace them for ascii ones. I made a > stupid question. Sorry!
If that's the behavior you see, I think _that_ is a bug: the reason non-breaking spaces exist is so programs do not separate words at that character (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space). GNU fmt respects non-breaking spaces and handles them accordingly: ~$ fmt --version | head -n1 fmt (GNU coreutils) 8.25 ~$ printf "XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\u00a0XXX XXX" | fmt -w 20 XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXÂ XXX XXX ~$ printf "XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX XXX" | fmt -w 20 XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX XXX Unfortunately I do not have access to an OpenBSD machine to verify whether or not its fmt does the correct thing. Eric
