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printf doesn't handle multi-byte values

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: calestyo <at> scientia.org, 54388-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54388: printf doesn't handle multi-byte values
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:59:42 +0000

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On 14/03/2022 15:38, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 14/03/2022 03:27, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>> Hey Pádraig.
>>
>> I just wanted to ask, whether the following could be a bug in printf:
>>
>> POSIX says[0], that e.g.:
>>      printf '%d\n' \"3
>> should give the numeric value of the character, and that "in a locale
>> with multi-byte characters, the value of a character is intended to be
>> the value of the equivalent of the wchar_t representation of the
>> character".
>>
>> In bash:
>> $ printf '%d\n' $'"\u2208'
>> 8712
>>
>> here the printf is bash's built-in printf, and there it works.
>>
>>
>> But using GNU coreutils' printf (version 8.32):
>> $ /usr/bin/printf '%d\n' $'"\u2208'
>> /usr/bin/printf: warning: ��: character(s) following character constant have been ignored
>> 226
>>
>>
>> Do I have some wrong assumptions or should I report that as a bug?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris.
>>
>>
>> [0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html
> 
> This is a limitation of current coreutils printf that only handles single byte chars currently.
> This email will open an issue in our bug tracker.
> 
> To summarize:
> $ ord() { printf "0x%x\n" "'$1"; }  # bash's printf
> $ ord 3
> 0x33
> $ ord $'\u2208'
> 0x2208
> 
> $ ord() { env printf "0x%x\n" "'$1"; }  # coreutils' printf
> $ ord 3
> 0x33
> $ ord $'\u2208'
> 0xprintf: warning: ��: character(s) following character constant have been ignored
> e2

The attached should fix this up.

Marking this as done.

cheers,
Pádraig

[printf-mb-values.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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