> How can I convert a character like ?? (small u, grave accent) to the
> integer character value of the current locale, i.e. per
> http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/html/HTML_2.0/iso8859-1.html ?? is
> 249
>
> Cheers,
> William
> --
> @,,@ William James
> (\--/) williamjamesgnusolaris at gmail.com
> (.>__<.) GNU/Solaris hacker
ksh93 supports character constants in integer expressions, thus
$(('`'))
will expand to the character value for grave and $(('u')) will
give the character value for small u. However, character values
can be signed so that
$(('??'))
expands to a signed number. However, you can do
printf "%u\n" $(('??' &0xff ))
to get the unsigned value.
David Korn
dgk at research.att.com
