From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: printf %<n>s in UTF-8 is not always POSIX-compliant
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:56:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120215145619.GF19525@xvii.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32370.1329316935@thecus.kiddle.eu>
On 2012-02-15 15:42:15 +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Bart wrote:
> > Am I understanding correctly that the intent here is that ?? is a two-
> > byte character so %2s should print the two literal bytes, rather than
> > print the single logical character in a field two logical characters
> > wide?
>
> That's correct. The POSIX definition uses bytes. For multibyte
> behaviour, there is an L modifier. I don't really see the sense in it
> myself: I don't want to write low-level stuff in the shell.
I think that's for consistency with C. Also, the shell could then
be used as a front-end to test string-related things.
> Frank Terbeck wrote:
> > Frankly, that would be the vendor's fault then. There are many *MANY*
> > ksh implementations, that make for a reasonable link target (ksh93,
> > pdksh or mksh - to name just a few). Zsh is not one of them.
>
> The fact that zsh is far from a perfect emulation doesn't stop it from
> being useful. I don't necessarily want to install a separate ksh package
> and zsh will run ksh scripts at least as well as pdksh.
But then the emulation should be correct.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-15 2:15 Vincent Lefevre
2012-02-15 8:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-02-15 9:10 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-02-15 11:05 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-02-15 11:53 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-02-15 12:09 ` Frank Terbeck
2012-02-15 12:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-02-15 12:42 ` Vincent Lefevre
2012-02-15 14:42 ` Oliver Kiddle
2012-02-15 14:56 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
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