On Sunday 11 May 2008 04:16, Chet Ramey wrote:
> pk wrote:
>> The man page says that bash builtin printf supports the standard
>> printf(1) formats. But it seems that \u is not working:
>>
>> $ /usr/bin/printf '\u212b\n'
>> Å
>> $ printf '\u212b\n'
>> \u212b
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong
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According to Chet Ramey on 5/10/2008 8:16 PM:
| The `\u' format string escape is not standard. I will consider it for a
| future enhancement.
You may also be interested in this recent thread on coreutils' printf and \u:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/
pk wrote:
The man page says that bash builtin printf supports the standard printf(1)
formats. But it seems that \u is not working:
$ /usr/bin/printf '\u212b\n'
Å
$ printf '\u212b\n'
\u212b
Am I doing something wrong here?
The `\u' format string escape is not standard. I will consider it
The man page says that bash builtin printf supports the standard printf(1)
formats. But it seems that \u is not working:
$ /usr/bin/printf '\u212b\n'
Å
$ printf '\u212b\n'
\u212b
Am I doing something wrong here?
I see the same behavior with
GNU bash, version 3.2.13(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-
