addition to POSIX mode documentation; new translations; update copyrights on some files; update formatted documentation; changes to cut/lcut loadable builtins when supplied -a ARRAY

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-This is bash.info, produced by makeinfo version 7.1 from bashref.texi.
+This is bash.info, produced by makeinfo version 7.2 from bashref.texi.

 This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the
-Bash shell (version 5.3, 7 April 2025).
+Bash shell (version 5.3, 18 May 2025).

-   This is Edition 5.3, last updated 7 April 2025, of ‘The GNU Bash
+   This is Edition 5.3, last updated 18 May 2025, of ‘The GNU Bash
 Reference Manual’, for ‘Bash’, Version 5.3.

   Copyright © 1988-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ Bash Features
 *************

 This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the
-Bash shell (version 5.3, 7 April 2025).  The Bash home page is
+Bash shell (version 5.3, 18 May 2025).  The Bash home page is
 <http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/>.

-   This is Edition 5.3, last updated 7 April 2025, of ‘The GNU Bash
+   This is Edition 5.3, last updated 18 May 2025, of ‘The GNU Bash
 Reference Manual’, for ‘Bash’, Version 5.3.

   Bash contains features that appear in other popular shells, and some
@@ -7990,14 +7990,23 @@ startup files.
  75. Bash removes an exited background process's status from the list
     of such statuses after the ‘wait’ builtin returns it.

-   There is other POSIX behavior that Bash does not implement by default
-even when in POSIX mode.  Specifically:
+   There is additional POSIX behavior that Bash does not implement by
+default even when in POSIX mode.  Specifically:

-  1. The ‘fc’ builtin checks ‘$EDITOR’ as a program to edit history
+  1. POSIX requires that word splitting be byte-oriented.  That is, each
+     _byte_ in the value of ‘IFS’ potentially splits a word, even if
+     that byte is part of a multibyte character in ‘IFS’ or part of
+     multibyte character in the word.  Bash allows multibyte characters
+     in the value of ‘IFS’, treating a valid multibyte character as a
+     single delimiter, and will not split a valid multibyte character
+     even if one of the bytes composing that character appears in ‘IFS’.
+     This is POSIX interpretation 1560, further modified by issue 1924.
+
+  2. The ‘fc’ builtin checks ‘$EDITOR’ as a program to edit history
     entries if ‘FCEDIT’ is unset, rather than defaulting directly to
     ‘ed’.  ‘fc’ uses ‘ed’ if ‘EDITOR’ is unset.

-  2. As noted above, Bash requires the ‘xpg_echo’ option to be enabled
+  3. As noted above, Bash requires the ‘xpg_echo’ option to be enabled
     for the ‘echo’ builtin to be fully conformant.

   Bash can be configured to be POSIX-conformant by default, by
@@ -13600,141 +13609,140 @@ D.5 Concept Index
 * yanking text:                          Readline Killing Commands.
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