Package: dash Version: 0.5.12-12 Severity: wishlist printf appears to typically accept escaped hexadecimal octets of the form \nXX, where XX are two hexdigits.
out of several printf implementations (including /usr/bin/printf and the builtins on many other shells), dash alone simply passes those characters through to output: ``` 0 dkg@bob:~$ dash -c "printf '\xd5'" | hd 00000000 5c 78 64 35 |\xd5| 00000004 0 dkg@bob:~$ bash -c "printf '\xd5'" | hd 00000000 d5 |.| 00000001 0 dkg@bob:~$ posh -c "printf '\xd5'" | hd 00000000 d5 |.| 00000001 0 dkg@bob:~$ zsh -c "printf '\xd5'" | hd 00000000 d5 |.| 00000001 0 dkg@bob:~$ fish -c "printf '\xd5'" | hd 00000000 d5 |.| 00000001 0 dkg@bob:~$ /usr/bin/printf '\xd5' | hd 00000000 d5 |.| 00000001 0 dkg@bob:~$ ``` https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/printf.html suggests that perhaps \xNN isn't a POSIX standard, so maybe it's within spec for dash to ignore it. But it might also be nice to make it work the way everyone else expects. --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.22-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 5.22 ii libc6 2.41-7 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: dash/ineffectivediversion:
