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| From: | Linda Walsh |
| Subject: | Re: BUG? RFE? printf lacking unicode support in multiple areas |
| Date: | Fri, 20 May 2011 11:57:14 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 |
Pierre Gaston wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> wrote:It appears printf in bash doesn't support unicode characters in a couple of ways: 1) use of of the \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX escape sequences in the format string (16 and 32 bit Unicode values).$ printf '%s: \u6444\n' $BASH_VERSION 4.2.8(1)-release: 摄
Ah, thanks! My bash (4.0.x is too old...) Am in process of upgrading my distro, so that should help... Thanks for the common sense answer.
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