Hi, According to the documentation, the section delimiter consists of at least two characters, and if you omit the second character when using -d/--section-delimiter, the second character is implied to be ':'. However, this doesn't seem to be the case in nl 9.3 if I provide a single non-ASCII char:
$ printf "a\nä:\nb" | nl -dä 1 a 2 ä: 3 b If I add the ':' manually, I get the expected output: $ printf "a\nä:\nb" | nl -dä: 1 a b Regards, Daniel