On 11/17/19 4:25 AM, Chris Carlen wrote:
Bash Version: 5.0
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release
Description:
UTF-8 multibyte char string split into bytes rather than characters.
Repeat-By:
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s extglob
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
# E.g., normal/expected behavior:
# Create a s
2019-11-18 20:46:26 +, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> > printf -v B '\u204B'
> > set -- ${B//?()/ }
> > echo "${@@Q}" #-> $'\342' $'\201' $'\213'
[...]
> It seems to me that zsh's approach is best:
>
> $ A=$'\u2048\201\u2048' zsh -c "printf '%q\n' \"\${A//$'\201'/:}\""
> ⁈:⁈
>
> That is re
2019-11-17 01:25:31 -0800, Chris Carlen:
[...]
> # write 'REVERSE PILCROW SIGN' to B, then repeat as above:
> printf -v B '\u204B'
> set -- ${B//?()/ }
> echo "${@@Q}" #-> $'\342' $'\201' $'\213'
>
> # NOTE: Since there is only one character (under the UTF-8 locale),
> # this should have set
