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Subject: Re: RE: [ast-users] How do I have : in an egrep [...] range?
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> Is there a simple *builtin* way for the other way round, get the character
> from its ordinal number? I seem to recall there was, but don't remember.
> BTW, does anybody know why a printf conversion doesn't work as one would
> expect?
>
>
Not all that simpe, but for any unicode character whose value is $u, you
should be able to do
typeset -i16 x=$u
printf $"\\u[${x#16#}]\\n"
David Korn
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