Re: UTF8 and printf '%2s' (coreutils 5.2.1)

[Tobias Burnus]

Hello,

I (Tobias Burnus) wrote:

> /usr/bin/printf 'A%2sB\n' '²'
> # Prints A²B instead of A ²B
> In other words: printf counts 2byte UTF-8 characters as two characters
> instead of one.

Re-reading the POSIX standard,  I've to admit that coreutils' prinf does
the right thing:
POSIX requires that the bytes and not the number of characters count.

> (BASH 2.05b's built-in printf has by the way the same problem, which
> is fixed in BASH 3.0.)

(I cannot reproduce the 'error' in BASH 3.0, i.e. it seems as if
everything is POSIX conform.)

Sorry for the spam.

Tobias