Possible Unicode Problems in Busybox - Collect and Discussion

[Harald Becker]

Hi Denys,

my new system gets to a usable state, so I'm able to do more then just 
writing mails ...

 >> 4) applet printf, string formats "%Ns"
>> Does this N mean character positions or bytes. The underlying C printf used
>> to work with bytes for decades. The man page talks about character
>> positions, but printf from bash uses bytes.
>
> Also, printf needs to support \uXXXX

Do you like getting a patch for BB_process_escape_sequence to add 
Unicode sequences \uXXXX?

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Harald