On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Harald Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > 2) shell substitution ${#var} > Does this length operation shall give the number of bytes in var or the > number of characters (which may differ for multi byte characters, like > UTF-8).
bash gives number of Unicode chars. I just fixed both ash and hush to do the same. > 4) applet printf, string formats "%Ns" > Does this N mean character positions or bytes. The underlying C printf used > to work with bytes for decades. The man page talks about character > positions, but printf from bash uses bytes. Also, printf needs to support \uXXXX -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
