Re: BUG? RFE? printf lacking unicode support in multiple areas

[Ralf Goertz]

Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:31:31AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> 1) use of of the \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX escape sequences
>> in the format string (16 and 32 bit Unicode values).
> 
> This isn't even a sentence.  What bash command did you execute, and
> what did it do, and what did you expect it to do?
> 
> In bash 4.2, on a Debian 6.0 box with a UTF-8 locale, printf '\u203c\n'
> prints the !! character (and a newline).  You have not actually stated
> what you DID, and how it FAILED.

I am not Linda but in my setting (4.1.10(1)-release) under linux 64bit I
have

$ /usr/bin/printf "\u203c\n" 
‼

but

$ printf "\u203c\n" 
\u203c