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    valid characters, because string operations are written in terms of
    wide character strings. This design choice was made before POSIX
    added requirements for the shell to accept arbitrary bytes in some
-   operations, and it is too late to fully implement it.
+   operations, and it is too late to fully implement them.
 
 
 ## Known Issues