Re: \c escape within $'...' can produce mangled UTF-8

[Andreas Schwab]

Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com> writes:

> It's the responsibility of your code to put an ASCII character after
> the \c. There's no way for Bash to guess that the 0xD0 is part of a
> Unicode character or the byte that it is.

It can, by using mbrlen.

Andreas.

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