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This bug was discovered with the QuickWKT plug-in with copy/paste from Excel, which uses tabs delimiters when pasting into a text window. For example, "POINT (180398 5459331)", where the whitespace in between the two values is a tab character, is considered by the QGIS WKT parser as invalid (it is not).

From a QGIS Python console:

# With space, there are no problems
geom = QgsGeometry.fromWkt("POINT (180398 5459331)")
print(geom is not None)  # True
# With tab, it does not read the WKT
geom = QgsGeometry.fromWkt("POINT (180398\\t5459331)")
print(geom is not None)  # False

Most other WKT parsers (PostGIS, GEOS, etc.) are more relaxed, and handle any whitespace without issue

(E.g. "SELECT ST_AsEWKT(E'SRID = 123;\
\
POINT\
(1\\t\
3)'::geometry);" works)