| Message ID | c7b48630f0f5e9c19bedb8298d591a01c12581af.1660486650.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz (mailing list archive) |
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| State | Superseded |
| Delegated to: | Herbert Xu |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [v2,1/2] man: printf: reword to avoid confusion v/v Ar argument[s]/arguments | expand |
diff --git a/src/dash.1 b/src/dash.1 index 310f34e..38cf020 100644 --- a/src/dash.1 +++ b/src/dash.1 @@ -1552,9 +1552,7 @@ otherwise it is evaluated as a C constant, with the following additions: .It A leading plus or minus sign is allowed. .It -If the leading character is a single or double quote, the value is the -.Tn ASCII -code of the next character. +If the leading character is a single or double quote, the value of the next byte. .El .Pp The format string is reused as often as necessary until all
Multiple issues: * the encoding is not always ASCII * what ASCII code is assigned to я * dash isn't internationalised (this is nonconformant but out of scope), and uses the next /byte/; in a UTF-8 locale: $ printf %d\\n \'ą 196 $ printf %d\\n \'я 196 this is in contrast to POSIX (and bash), which says: > If the leading character is a single-quote or double-quote, > the value shall be the numeric value in the underlying codeset > of the character following the single-quote or double-quote. (i.e. mbrtowc(&val, argv[n], ...)) Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> --- src/dash.1 | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)