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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.4.12-3


On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:27:48, Steven Penny wrote:
> Bash printf cannot handle any Unicode blocks starting with "Private Use Area"
> (U+E000 - U+F8FF). Note I will be skipping the surrogate blocks[1] (U+D800 -
> U+DFFF) for this post, as /bin/printf does not support them either[2]:

A patch was submitted back in November[1], and Chet even said thanks[2], but he
never applied it. Can we pull this in as a Cygwin specific patch or something?

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-11/msg00039
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-11/msg00046


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