Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> Thank you for testing and reporting that!
> I have a marked preference for using hexadecimal (readability),
> but if I can't find a good, universally-portable converter that is
> sufficiently simple, I'll just revert to using octal.

Thanks, I fixed left multibyte-white-space.  Although I do not try it
on Debian, passed on CentOS, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.