Re: How to convert <binaryGlowMixedWithASCII> to pure ASCII

On 14.05.2025 17:02, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

On 2025-05-14, Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> wrote:

On 14/05/2025 at 07:28, Brian Patrie wrote:

Chris Elvidge wrote:
 > $ sq=$(echo -ne '\u0027\u2018\u2019\u0022\u201c\u201d')
>
To eliminate needless overhead:
   sg=$'\u0027\u2018\u2019\u0022\u201c\u201d'

 
So it is needless overhead in a script that is intended
to be portable to certain shells.
The -n option of echo is documented in POSIX (as an XSI extension),

The 'echo -n' could also simply be replaced by 'printf'.

whereas $'...' is a feature of some shells. (Korn, Bash, Zsh?)

Concerning portability the question in the first place is IMO what to
do with those '\u....' . - I don't think this is standard, or is it?

So if it's non-standard we could use arbitrary common but non-standard
shell features.

Like the shell built-in 'printf' without $'...' to use just '...'.
Or IMO best just the already suggested ANSI strings  var=$'...' .

Janis

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