Re: [OT] Re: OT: Gawk match() and numbers in scientific notation

On Saturday 10 May 2008 20:10, Hermann Peifer wrote:

> I combined some code from Ed's and Steffen's scripts and added
> /usr/bin/printf in the middle part. Unlike bash's builtin printf or
> gawk's (s)printf: /usr/bin/printf is able to convert Unicode code point
> values into chars.
> 
> The script is far away from being smart, efficient, or anything like
> that, but it seems to work with Unicode-aware locales.
>[snip]

Great job, really!

I'm still trying to put together something that reads the locale files
directly, but that involves reading libc documentation for wc/mb etc. +
posix docs for locales (probably some of that is not strictly needed, but
since it's something that I should have done anyway, I'm just seizing the
opportunity). This of course is not to say that your script is not
useful...on the contrary instead, it's really neat and smart.

A big thank you!

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