On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:21:11PM -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> Unfortunately I do not have access to an OpenBSD machine to verify
> whether or not its fmt does the correct thing.
By the way, if you try your example in openbsd take in care obsd printf
won't recognize \u00a0. Use '\xc2\xa0' instead.
I was trying your example in a linux machine obtaining your same results.
But I did it mostly because I was curious about the other difference: the
GNU version inserts the new line 'in' the number assigned by -w, giving
you in this case a 19 wide line as result. The obsd version breaks the
line in the following character giving you a 20 chars wide line.
Back to the original topic. What made me hesitate if 'feature' or 'bug'
was the man page. The following two paragraphs made me think converting
all spaces to ascii could be desired as a practical solution:
fmt is meant to format mail messages prior to sending, but may also
be useful for other simple tasks...
The program was designed to be simple and fast – for more complex
operations, the standard text processors are likely to be more
appropriate.
