On Sunday 11 May 2008 04:16, Chet Ramey wrote: > pk wrote: >> The man page says that bash builtin printf supports the standard >> printf(1) formats. But it seems that \uHHHH is not working: >> >> $ /usr/bin/printf '\u212b\n' >> Å >> $ printf '\u212b\n' >> \u212b >> >> Am I doing something wrong here? > > The `\u' format string escape is not standard. I will consider it for a > future enhancement.
Ah ok, I was fooled by the fact that printf(1) on my system does include the \u format. Thanks
