GNU bug report logs - #18987
the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap

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Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 17:15:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 18987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18987: the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:56:45 +0900

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Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> Thank you for testing and reporting that!
> I have a marked preference for using hexadecimal (readability),
> but if I can't find a good, universally-portable converter that is
> sufficiently simple, I'll just revert to using octal.

Thanks, I fixed left multibyte-white-space.  Although I do not try it
on Debian, passed on CentOS, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.

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