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Author loewis
Recipients belopolsky, benjamin.peterson, cgwalters, cvrebert, dexen, eric.araujo, fperez, loewis, mark.dickinson, mcepl, nwerneck, r.david.murray, rhettinger, vstinner
Date 2010-11-30.19:00:30
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The key requirement to consider for in POSIX compatible mode is, well, POSIX compatibility, which is defined in

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_03

Now, POSIX declares that what <blank> is depends on LC_CTYPE (character class blank). I'd argue that if the objective is to behave exactly like the shell, it really should be doing that (i.e. work in a locale-aware manner).
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2010-11-30 19:00:34loewissetrecipients: + loewis, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, vstinner, dexen, benjamin.peterson, cgwalters, mcepl, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, nwerneck, cvrebert, fperez
2010-11-30 19:00:34loewissetmessageid: <1291143634.3.0.188661019685.issue1170@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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