From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: "cat -v" in zsh (and a minor bug)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:15:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <990926201517.ZM6329@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9909261431.AA27874@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
On Sep 26, 4:31pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: "cat -v" in zsh (and a minor bug)
}
} "Bart Schaefer" wrote:
} > The bug is demonstrated by:
} >
} > a='å' # That's meta-a, or 228 decimal
} > (( #a == #\å )) || echo oops
}
} Seems to be 229, here.
Typo.
} Here's a function that allows you to enter a numeric argument to get a
} character with a given number, sort of like quoted insert. Have I missed
} something simpler (i.e. can you really not process a character code in
} decimal)?
Right, you can't process a character code in decimal. You could do it in
octal rather than hex, but that doesn't help much.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
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1999-09-26 14:31 ` Peter Stephenson
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