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the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap

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Message #34 received at 18987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 18987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18987: the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 08:38:18 +0900

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On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 07:56:48 -0800
Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> Thank you for working on that.
> I've improved your patch: update the now-shared hex_printf_
> rather than making a copy, use a better definition of that function
> (knowing that "printf %s a b c d e" reuses the format string and
> prints just 5 bytes helps), also update word-multibyte to work
> with the new definition, and rewrite the commit log.
> 
> I'll push after you ACK:

Thanks for the review.  I added to a change the patch as word-multibyte
uses \OOO in printf simply, because use it in other test module e.g.
euc-mb.

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