Roland Mainz wrote: > What happens with the value of a "ustring" (I assume this means "unicode > string", right ?) value in a locale which may not be able to represent > some characters in that value, e.g. charatcers outside the BMP (Basic > Multilinguar Plane) when the current shell script runs in ja_JP.PCK ... > or en_US.ISO8859-1 ?
I assume you're asking what the output of svcprop is for a property of that type? To answer your parenthetical question, a ustring is an "8-bit UTF-8 string" (intended to mean UTF-8-encoded Unicode). I believe svcprop emits the UTF-8-encoded string, with (some) special characters (e.g. newlines) quoted. If you view svcprop as a means of getting values that can be reliably fed back into SCF (perhaps with some processing) to reproduce the original values, this is a good thing. If you expect svcprop to emit localized output, it isn't. Since svcprop is primarily intended for scripting purposes, I think the former argument is in line with our expectations. See print_value() in svcprop.c for the gory details. You can find more information on SCF types in scf_value_create(3SCF). Dave
