On 24/02/19 17:07, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> So non break space is generally considered a word delimiter,
> though there are complications you detail from unicode.
> 
> In regard to options for enabling various behaviors for wc(1),
> I'm thinking we might keep the strict POSIX isspace() behavior
> with LC_CTYPE=C and/or POSIXLY_CORRECT=1, and use iswnbspace()
> by default, since that's the most common operation one would want,
> and is consistent with libreoffice for example.
> I'll adjust the patch along those lines.

Full patch attached.

cheers,
Pádraig