Re: printf, binary data, leading single quote and non ASCII codesets

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/24/24 7:36 AM, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> Hi,
>
> bash manpage says for printf contains the following statement:
>
> > if the leading character is a single or double quote, the value is
> > the ASCII value of the following character.

Thanks for the report. The man page should have been updated when I changed
that code to use multibyte characters many years ago.

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