Problem seems to be in keyboard layout. ie. AltGr + space produces different byte sequence in us- and fi-layouts. This can be verified with following commands. (In both cases the space between quotes is typed by pressing AltGr+space)
$ setxkbmap us $ echo " " | hexdump 0000000 0a20 0000002 $ setxkbmap fi $ echo " " | hexdump 0000000 a0c2 000a 0000003 -- [Hardy] Piping commands does not work always https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218637 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs