# $FreeBSD$ unset LC_ALL LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_CTYPE # a umlaut s=$(printf '\303\244') # euro sign s=$s$(printf '\342\202\254') # some sort of 't' outside BMP s=$s$(printf '\360\235\225\245') set -- "$s" [ ${#s} = 3 ] && [ ${#1} = 3 ]