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Re: printf '\uFEFF' outputs invalid UTF-8 on Windows

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  Re: printf '\uFEFF' outputs invalid UTF-8 on Windows Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-11-05 14:27 -0500

#14764 — Re: printf '\uFEFF' outputs invalid UTF-8 on Windows

On 11/5/18 12:09 PM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 19
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>         The builtin printf '\uFEFF' outputs ED 9F BF ED BB BF in a
>         UTF-8 locale on Microsoft Windows, where sizeof(wchar_t) == 2.
>         It should output EF BB BF, like printf (GNU coreutils) 8.30
>         does.

Thanks for the report. This has been fixed for almost exactly two years
in the devel branch, the result of

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-11/msg00039.html

and is fixed in the bash-5.x alpha and beta versions.

Chet
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