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Re: bash handles bytes instead of chars
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bash handles bytes instead of chars |
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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:07:26 -0400 |
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®om wrote:
> printf was only a way to send 0xe282ac on stdin of each tool, it doesn't
> matter how printf interprets the bytes. What is important is how the
> tool ("cut" for example, or read -n) interprets them :)
I don't have any control over the various implementations of `cut' out
there. The `read -n' issue already generated debate, and I decided to
change it to act on multibyte characters in the next version of bash.
Chet
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