On Sunday, April 06, 2014 01:24:58 PM Jan Novak wrote: > To solve this problem I suppose to add "wide" switch to printf > or to add "%S" format (similarly to wprintf(3) )
ksh93 already has this feature using the "L" modifier: ksh -c "printf '%.3Ls\n' $'\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605'" ★★★ bash -c "printf '%.3Ls\n' $'\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605'" ★ Also, zsh does this by default with no special option. I tend to lean towards going by character anyway because that's what most shell features such as "read -N" do, and most work directly involving the shell is with text not binary data. -- Dan Douglas
