Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.ripco.com!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Eric Blake Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: \c-handling in $'-strings Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:44:14 -0600 Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Lines: 52 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CofkvvUBbrB76NWovii8bwlhvervjKk9U" X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1441230261 13297 208.118.235.17 (2 Sep 2015 21:44:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: Helmut Karlowski , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Openpgp: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.24 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11473 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --CofkvvUBbrB76NWovii8bwlhvervjKk9U Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/02/2015 03:10 PM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: >> >> The Posix standardization of $'...' requires that the character after = the >=20 > Where is that described? I could not find anything about $'...' in the > posix-docs. http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=3D249 It's not part of POSIX yet; but the current wording in that bug report is the probable starting point for including it in the next major revision of POSIX (which will be known as Issue 8, and is several years out on the horizon). The intent of the austingroupbugs.net pages is to document what people can start implementing now, even before POSIX finally makes it official. And this very issue has just been under some recent revisions; comment 2793 mentions that some wording revisions were proposed just last month. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --CofkvvUBbrB76NWovii8bwlhvervjKk9U Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJV522uAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqfuMIAKSAESUWmpnCIkJhHu3iHQCH 4n/GDGS25FJs32C6GpWtNh6XPmB8w7CCJDo4+30a87aYTC/Ev3kYX+hu5Fio5vWj E9DGxs5SOs1ZLbF42zbZ7YgH1zc7kK8SoCpDVNfw/L56B9R5hikIOrwcJ5QAoOTr gsk3BNMuXiH7e6XJol32SgUZuTcFFdrpjLNWYbcswwgNLLNFaTA+ThNi36o+E4mz p/1Z8+oiirEBw7QgAegRl026qO0Dn7Dxq6aTdrRNraNg22bL6h/gbFaAwnpPY3I+ mWGlZJOBJ/Fm2dx88j1BLS21cFGY0QFpGyfLSRUnopOUPZuVELOAzb12ifAd2s4= =cvsr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CofkvvUBbrB76NWovii8bwlhvervjKk9U--