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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-12-25 14:18:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-12-25 14:19:10 -0800 |
| commit | a9f5544ff60bcc113253861f463471b169def545 (patch) | |
| tree | b86dbe1eb777cd56bae36b34d16d540b41cc7e08 | |
| parent | babc8660d5a7561ed7e99e09aeabffaccfe06d6d (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-a9f5544ff60bcc113253861f463471b169def545.tar.gz | |
Document AIX 7.2 printf command gotcha
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins):
Document AIX 7.2 sh printf problem with octal escapes.
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diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index 2ac66969..a591912a 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -17987,6 +17987,12 @@ or @samp{%s} is probably easiest: printf %s -foo @end example +AIX 7.2 @command{sh} mishandles octal escapes in multi-byte locales by +treating them as characters instead of bytes. For example, in a locale +using the UTF-8 encoding, @samp{printf '\351'} outputs the two bytes C3, +A9 (the UTF-8 encoding for U+00E9) instead of the desired single byte E9. +To work around the bug, use the C locale. + Bash 2.03 mishandles an escape sequence that happens to evaluate to @samp{%}: @example |