$ echo ' '|ascii2uni -a Q #bad enough that this is broken 0 tokens converted $ echo ' '|ascii2uni -p -a Q Ill-formed input   at token 1 at line 2 $ echo '  '|ascii2uni -p -a Q Ill-formed input   at token 1 at line 1 So what does the -p really do? The man page needs to give an example.