[issue1170] shlex have problems with parsing unicode

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

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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