On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Terrence J. Doyle <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> But, another reason for bringing this up is that octal numbers used to
> work for
> this purpose in $''. Now (ksh Version AJM 93u+ 2012-06-12), it appears that
> 3-digit octal numbers do not work...
>
>     $ printf "%o %o\n" $(('_')) $((':'))
>     137 72
>     $ printf $'\0137 \072' | cat -v
>

Shouldn't it be written as $'\137' ?


>     ^K7 :
>     $ print $'\0100'    # Should be @
>     0
>     $ print $'\077'     # OK
>     ?
>
> Is this a bug?
>
>                     Terrence Doyle
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