Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I just tried this, and I get presented with a > > > prompt. Can you clarify? What shell are you using, and what kind of prompt did you see?? Did you paste exactly: uc() { /usr/bin/printf \\u$1; }; as the first line and echo $(uc 2639) as the second? You should see a smiley face (☹) for this example. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines