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Re: UTF-8 printf string formating problem
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Dan Douglas |
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Re: UTF-8 printf string formating problem |
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Sun, 06 Apr 2014 06:56:43 -0500 |
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On Sunday, April 06, 2014 01:24:58 PM Jan Novak wrote:
> To solve this problem I suppose to add "wide" switch to printf
> or to add "%S" format (similarly to wprintf(3) )
ksh93 already has this feature using the "L" modifier:
ksh -c "printf '%.3Ls\n' $'\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605'"
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bash -c "printf '%.3Ls\n' $'\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605'"
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Also, zsh does this by default with no special option. I tend to lean towards
going by character anyway because that's what most shell features such as "read
-N" do, and most work directly involving the shell is with text not binary data.
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Dan Douglas