Re: printf \xNNN

[Padraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Padraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Why [ :-) ] does printf take up to 3 hex digits?
> > What's wrong with 2 (lastest bash just does 2).
> >
> > $ /usr/bin/printf "\xf73"
> > s
> > $ printf "\xf73"
> > ÷3
> >
> > printf from sh-utils just ignored the first hex digit?
>
>
> Thank you for the report!
> That looks like a bug.
> It is at least 10 years old, since that code was there for my

Cool, I think bash used your code also, since it had
this bug up and including the version shipped with RH7.2
I think. Anyway I thought there was some esoteric reason
rather than a bug since it was explicitly mentioned in the docs also?

Thanks,
Pádraig