From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: 36887@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: base-system@gentoo.org
Subject: bug#36887: coreutils-8.31: printf chokes on \u0041
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:02:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w6gh871tagt.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
[Forwarding bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/680244 as requested by the
Gentoo package maintainer.]
According to printf(1):
Interpreted sequences are:
[...]
\uHHHH Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value HHHH (4 digits)
\UHHHHHHHH
Unicode character with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)
It does not work, though:
$ /usr/bin/printf '\u0041\n'
/usr/bin/printf: invalid universal character name \u0041
$ /usr/bin/printf '\U00000041\n'
/usr/bin/printf: invalid universal character name \U00000041
Other tools interpret the sequence correctly:
$ printf '\u0041\n' # bash
A
$ echo -e '\u0041' # bash
A
$ zsh -c "echo -e '\u0041'"
A
$ emacs -Q --batch --eval '(princ "\u0041\n")'
A
$ python -c "print ('\u0041')"
A
$ ruby -e 'print("\u0041\n")'
A
next reply other threads:[~2019-08-01 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-01 11:02 Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2019-08-01 13:09 ` bug#36887: coreutils-8.31: printf chokes on \u0041 Pádraig Brady
2019-08-01 20:18 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-08-01 23:37 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-02 8:00 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-08-02 10:14 ` L A Walsh
2023-06-07 14:16 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-06-07 14:57 ` Pádraig Brady
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