On 7/5/12 8:55 AM, Clark WANG wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Terrence J. Doyle
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[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' ?

Oops. You're right. I forgot about that. Thanks, Clark.

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