bug#18987: the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap

[Norihiro Tanaka]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 07:56:48 -0800
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for working on that.
> I've improved your patch: update the now-shared hex_printf_
> rather than making a copy, use a better definition of that function
> (knowing that "printf %s a b c d e" reuses the format string and
> prints just 5 bytes helps), also update word-multibyte to work
> with the new definition, and rewrite the commit log.
> 
> I'll push after you ACK:

Thanks for the review.  I added to a change the patch as word-multibyte
uses \OOO in printf simply, because use it in other test module e.g.
euc-mb.

0001-tests-avoid-awk-printf-xHH-portability-trap.patch
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