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

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/20/11 3:31 AM, Linda Walsh 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).

Bash-4.2 added support for the \u and \U format string escapes.
They're still not in Posix, but should go in for the next revision.

> 2) It doesn't handle the "%lc" conversion to print out wide
> characters.  

Also not in Posix, and of questionable value at the shell level.

Chet

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