unset LC_ALL LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_CTYPE c1=e # a umlaut c2=$(printf '\303\244') # euro sign c3=$(printf '\342\202\254') # some sort of 't' outside BMP c4=$(printf '\360\235\225\245') s=$c1$c2$c3$c4 testcase() { code="$1" expected="$2" oIFS="$IFS" eval "$code" IFS='|' result="$#|$*" IFS="$oIFS" if [ "x$result" = "x$expected" ]; then ok=x$ok else failures=x$failures echo "For $code, expected $expected actual $result" fi } testcase 'set -- "$s"' "1|$s" testcase 'set -- "${s#$c2}"' "1|$s" testcase 'set -- "${s#*}"' "1|$s" testcase 'set -- "${s#$c1}"' "1|$c2$c3$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s#$c1$c2}"' "1|$c3$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s#$c1$c2$c3}"' "1|$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s#$c1$c2$c3$c4}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s#?}"' "1|$c2$c3$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s#??}"' "1|$c3$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s#???}"' "1|$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s#????}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s#*$c3}"' "1|$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s%$c4}"' "1|$c1$c2$c3" testcase 'set -- "${s%$c3$c4}"' "1|$c1$c2" testcase 'set -- "${s%$c2$c3$c4}"' "1|$c1" testcase 'set -- "${s%$c1$c2$c3$c4}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s%?}"' "1|$c1$c2$c3" testcase 'set -- "${s%??}"' "1|$c1$c2" testcase 'set -- "${s%???}"' "1|$c1" testcase 'set -- "${s%????}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s%$c2*}"' "1|$c1" testcase 'set -- "${s##$c2}"' "1|$s" testcase 'set -- "${s##*}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s##$c1}"' "1|$c2$c3$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s##$c1$c2}"' "1|$c3$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s##$c1$c2$c3}"' "1|$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s##$c1$c2$c3$c4}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s##?}"' "1|$c2$c3$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s##??}"' "1|$c3$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s##???}"' "1|$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s##????}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s##*$c3}"' "1|$c4" testcase 'set -- "${s%%$c4}"' "1|$c1$c2$c3" testcase 'set -- "${s%%$c3$c4}"' "1|$c1$c2" testcase 'set -- "${s%%$c2$c3$c4}"' "1|$c1" testcase 'set -- "${s%%$c1$c2$c3$c4}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s%%?}"' "1|$c1$c2$c3" testcase 'set -- "${s%%??}"' "1|$c1$c2" testcase 'set -- "${s%%???}"' "1|$c1" testcase 'set -- "${s%%????}"' "1|" testcase 'set -- "${s%%$c2*}"' "1|$c1" test "x$failures" = x