Re: UTF-8 printf string formating problem

[Jan Novak]

Chris Down wrote:
> I don't have much of an opinion on whether this behaviour is right or
> wrong in the context of bash, but if this behaviour is changed, I think
> it should be done under another format character, rather than changing
> %s (or changing behaviour when not in POSIX-compliance mode).

IMHO my example demonstrates clearly, that printf output of UTF-8 chars is 
broken,
(doesn't matter, if it is or not POSIX compliant).

To solve this problem I suppose to add "wide" switch to printf
or to add "%S" format   (similarly to wprintf(3) )

$ printf -w "|%4s|\n" "áá"
or
$ printf "|%4S|\n" "áá"
|  áá|