I was mostly curious about how wc handles spaces and whether ignoring non-ascii spaces brings me closer or farther from what wc does. So I focused on that, and

I was mostly curious about how wc handles spaces and whether ignoring non-ascii spaces brings me closer or farther from what wc does. So I focused on that, and this specific printable characters handling didn't caught my eye. On a meta level, I wasn't even considering that the notion of a word might be different from "a sequence of characters that aren't space characters". Live and learn indeed.