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Re: BUG? RFE? printf lacking unicode support in multiple areas
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: BUG? RFE? printf lacking unicode support in multiple areas |
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Fri, 20 May 2011 10:07:03 +0200 |
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Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> writes:
> 2) It doesn't handle the "%lc" conversion to print out wide
> characters. To demonstrate this I created a wide char for a
> double exclamation mark U+203C, using a=$'0x3c\0x20' and then
That's not a wide character, that's a four character string. Since
there is no way to produce a word containing a NUL character it is
impossible to support %lc in any useful way.
Andreas.
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