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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2014-08-03 22:02:41 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2014-08-03 22:02:41 +0300 |
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Document more about sprintf %c.
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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index d485a50d..7039325b 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -8648,6 +8648,8 @@ and then to print the multibyte encoding of that character. Similarly, when printing a numeric value, @command{gawk} allows the value to be within the numeric range of values that can be held in a wide character. +If the conversion to multibyte encoding fails, @command{gawk} +uses the low eight bits of the value as the character to print. Other @command{awk} versions generally restrict themselves to printing the first byte of a string or to numeric values within the range of |