Pádraig Brady wrote: > Yes printf follows the C standard which only considers bytes. > ... > I don't think we'd be able to change the current operation of printf > due to backwards compat reasons? Though we might be able to somehow leverage > the existing multibyte character aware alignment/truncation code in: > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=gl/lib/mbsalign.c;hb=HEAD
Dan Douglas pointed out in the corresponding discussion in bug-bash that ksh uses the L modifier. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-04/msg00021.html Dan Douglas wrote: > ksh93 already has this feature using the "L" modifier: > > ksh -c "printf '%.3Ls\n' $'\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605'" > ★★★ At least there is prior art for it. Bob
