Antonio Macchi wrote:
thanks... but parameters expansions and printf builtin works differently about it...
same problem with read... LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" $ read -n1 è $ hexdump -C <(echo -n $REPLY) 00000000 c3 |.| 00000001 "è" is two chars.... but read stops at the first some commands works with and some others without regards about LC_CTYPE can this creates a bit of confusion?