Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!dalcs!iisat!kevin
From: kevin@iisat.UUCP (Kevin Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: IBM Extended Characters
Message-ID: <11@iisat.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 21:57:13 GMT
References: <651@jclyde.UUCP> <256@conexch.UUCP> <382@nancy.UUCP> <10330@steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: International Information Service, Dart., NS
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Summary: graphics characters and different shells

In article <10330@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> In article <382@nancy.UUCP> las@msudoc.UUCP (=P^ZAZPPPYPYXU	zQYhBYPYo^O) writes:
> >Well on my machine running SCO XENIX/386 2.2.1 echo "\0376"
> >yields \0376 and not a little square.
> 
> agrees that the result is one byte. Perhaps you're using csh or something?

I just tried this under the C shell (csh) , and sure enough, I got
"\0376", BUT , under Bourne shell (sh), I get the little square (be sure
to have stty cs8 to allow the high bit).

Answer to this strange situation ?

I appears that 'echo' is an internal command for csh, and does not attempt
to interpret this as one byte, but just a string of characters. The answer
for csh users is to explicitly call /bin/echo which will do this conversion
properly for you.  I guess this means that echo is not necessarily echo.

Cheers...
-- 
Kevin Davies		International Information Service (IIS)
UUCP:  {uunet,utai,watmath}!dalcs!iisat!kevin
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