On 9/14/25 3:08 PM, Robert Elz wrote:

There is really nothing in the standard I can find which is explicit about
how locales affect parsing of programs using any of the languages it defines
(awk, bc, sed, sh ...) - and I would certainly hesitate to jump to the
conclusion that the locale settings are intended to affect that, in fact
I think that would be an extremely poor result.

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.

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