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Bug in unexpand --all of <spaces><tab>

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Message #20 received at 9116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth <at> usit.uio.no>
Cc: 9116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9116: Bug in unexpand --all of <spaces><tab>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:41:18 +0100

On 19/07/11 08:13, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Pádraig Brady writes:
>> Actually POSIX is quite specific and my reading
>> is that a space before tabstop should be preserved
>> iff it's the only blank before tabstop and it
>> isn't followed by another blank.
>>
>> In that sense, both i18n patched unexpand
>> and current coreutils get this wrong.
> 
> Coreutils 5.12 gets that right in my test:
> 1st output line is "1234567<space><tab>1".

That's incorrect according to POSIX.
The space should be converted to tab as
it's followed by a blank.

> But now that you mention it, an option to never
> output the sequence <space><tab> would be nice.

From my reading of POSIX, that's what it specifies.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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