from the ksh93t RELEASE file
08-12-04 A bug in which printf "%d\n" "'<euro>'" did not output the
numerical value of the EURO symbol, 8354, has been fixed.
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:05:48 -0800 Eric Peterson wrote:
> I came across the following snippet and attempted to test it with UTF-8
> characters. but I get "[á] 0xprintf: warning: 'á': invalid character
> constant" on my Mac, but on a linux box I get what I expected "[á] 0x14C4".
> Both systems have the LANG set to UTF-8 (see below).
> The difference I do see is that the linux box is "Version AJM 93t+
> 2010-02-02" and the Mac is "Version M 1993-12-28 s+". Was printf fixed in
> 93t?
> I did some googling and could not find much about this error, other then some
> folks do get it, even in Java and C. But no resolution or workaround was
> identified. I'd like to write machine independent code that would work both
> my mac and various linux boxes (i386 GNU/Linux, Solaris, AIX linux, Redhat,
> Ubuntu, Oracle Enterprise Linux [a flavor of Redhat], etc).
> #!/usr/bin/env ksh93
> str="áááá»á¥á
á¦,á±á´á áá¡ááá²á
"
> for (( i=0; i < ${#str}; i++ ))
> do
> c=${str:$i:1}
> if [[ $c == ' ' ]]
> then
> printf "[%s] 0x%X\n" " " \'\ \'
> else
> printf "[%s] 0x%X\n" "$c" \'$c\'
> fi
> done
> exit 0
> NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> Thanks for any insight ya'll can provide.
> Eric
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