Pierre Gaston wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Linda Walsh <b...@tlinx.org> wrote:It appears printf in bash doesn't support unicode characters in a couple of ways: 1) use of of the \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX escape sequences in the format string (16 and 32 bit Unicode values).$ printf '%s: \u6444\n' $BASH_VERSION 4.2.8(1)-release: 摄
Ah, thanks! My bash (4.0.x is too old...) Am in process of upgrading my distro, so that should help... Thanks for the common sense answer.
