Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:31:31AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >> 1) use of of the \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX escape sequences >> in the format string (16 and 32 bit Unicode values). > > This isn't even a sentence. What bash command did you execute, and > what did it do, and what did you expect it to do? > > In bash 4.2, on a Debian 6.0 box with a UTF-8 locale, printf '\u203c\n' > prints the !! character (and a newline). You have not actually stated > what you DID, and how it FAILED.
I am not Linda but in my setting (4.1.10(1)-release) under linux 64bit I have $ /usr/bin/printf "\u203c\n" ‼ but $ printf "\u203c\n" \u203c
