1 2# a umlaut 3s=$(printf '\303\244') 4# euro sign 5s=$s$(printf '\342\202\254') 6 7# Start a new shell so the locale change is picked up. 8ss="$(LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ${SH} -c "printf %s \$'\u00e4\u20ac'")" 9[ "$s" = "$ss" ] 10