Which part of that concerns you? Seems like expected awk & printf behavior no?
> On Feb 20, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin
> <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:21:08 +0000, Bigendian Smalls wrote:
>>
>> Agreed 100%
> Well, I'll agree with myself only 98%. I don't like the following behavior:
>
> 735 $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 awk 'BEGIN { printf( "%5s\n%5s\n12345\n", "A", "Ж" )
> }'
> A
> Ж
> 12345
>
>>> On Feb 20, 2016, at 6:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>>
>>> In the UTF-8 representation, then, please. UTF-8 is a marvelously
>>> compatible
>>> superset of USASCII. Near zero (well, at worst minimal) effort to adapt.
>>> And
>>> it's the de facto World Wide Web standard.
>>>
>>> Don't indulge in wishful thinking that a Unicode based compiler can smoothly
>>> accept eiter ASCII or EBCDIC source code. The EBCDIC will need to be
>>> converted.
>
> -- gil
>
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