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Re: \M-^C vs \203 vs \x83 as visual representations of bytes

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: \M-^C vs \203 vs \x83 as visual representations of bytes
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:25:39 +0000
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2024-02-25 09:07:51 +0000, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> $ ksh -xc 'printf "%q\n" "$a"'
> + printf '%q\n' $'\x83'
> $'\x83'
[...]

For the record, ksh93 switched from using \203 to using \x83 in
ksh93u+ in 2012.
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh93-history/commit/1753aa035#diff-c04f1e85360bcf953a69830ce48b4c81a0cdea3851729a0090527e82f21e803bR436

-- 
Stephane

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