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wc: word count incorrect when words separated only by no-break space

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: vampyrebat <at> gmail.com, 34524-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: bug#34524: wc: word count incorrect when words separated only by
 no-break space
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:26:55 -0800

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On 24/02/19 19:55, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

Updated patch attached. I'll push in a few hours.
Marking this bug as done.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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