Re: builtin printf not printing unicode characters?

[Chet Ramey]

pk wrote:
> The man page says that bash builtin printf supports the standard printf(1)
> formats. But it seems that \uHHHH is not working:
>
> $ /usr/bin/printf '\u212b\n'
> Å
> $ printf '\u212b\n'
> \u212b
>
> Am I doing something wrong here?

The `\u' format string escape is not standard.  I will consider it for a
future enhancement.

Chet
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