Eric Blake wrote:
|>> Dan Douglas wrote:
|>>> ksh93 already has this feature using the "L" modifier:
|>>>
|>>> ksh -c "printf '%.3Ls\n' $'\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605'"
|>>> ★★★
|>>
|>> At least there is prior art for it.
|>
|> So we can count bytes, chars or cells (graphemes).
|>
Rich Felker wrote:
|On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 02:49:37PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> Eric Blake wrote:
|>|Hmm. POSIX requires support for %ls (aka %S) according to byte counts,
|>|and currently states that %Ls is undefined. But I would LOVE to have a
|>|standardized
Hello,
Chet Ramey wrote:
|On 4/10/14, 12:16 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|
|> Even better would nonetheless be the great picture with
|> a termios(4) IUTF8 flag, some extended xywidth(3) that returns
|> a tuple of {[EastAsianWidth indication,] is-combining,
|> width-if-non-co
Chet Ramey wrote:
|On 4/11/14, 6:16 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> Hello,
|>
|> Chet Ramey wrote:
|>|On 4/10/14, 12:16 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|>|
|>|> Even better would nonetheless be the great picture with
|>|> a termios(4) IUTF8 flag, some extended xywi
Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote in
<20230901181024.pwx4plwclz7ij...@chazelas.org>:
|2023-09-01 07:54:02 -0500, Eric Blake via austin-group-l at The Open Group:
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|> How many scripts in the wild actually use %b, though? And if there
|> are such scripts, anything
Stephane Chazelas wrote in
<20230902084912.vdfedsgbnat2w...@chazelas.org>:
|2023-09-01 23:28:50 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The \
|Open Group:
...
|>|FWIW, a "printf %b" github shell code search returns ~ 29k
|>|entries
|>|(https://github.com/sear
