On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:16:41 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: >David Noon wrote: >>The script that will never work is for bash (another UNIX shell). > >I don't understand this sentence. Nor does Rocket Software, I assume: > >http://www.rocketsoftware.com/zos-open-source/tools > In most of the Linux shells that David and I tried, printf is a shell builtin. Of these, only zsh seems to understand the variable-length UTF-8 encoding. /usr/bin/printf is UTF-8 ignorant also.
In my CJK examples, most of the glyphs are displayed double-width, so it's as much a matter of terminal emulator behavior as of printf's formatting. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
