#!/usr/bin/awk -f BEGIN { unicodeterm=1 # Assume Unicode support if (ENVIRON["LC_ALL"] !~ "UTF") { if (ENVIRON["LC_ALL"] != "" unicodeterm=0 # LC_ALL is the boss, and it says nay else { # Check other locale settings if LC_ALL override not set if (ENVIRON["LC_CTYPE"] !~ "UTF") { if (ENVIRON["LANG"] !~ "UTF") unicodeterm=0 # This terminal does not support Unicode } } } if (unicodeterm) { # This terminal supports Unicode # We need a Unicode compatible printf, so we source this externally # printf might not know \u or \x, so use octal. # U+25B3 => UTF-8 342 226 263 "/usr/bin/printf \\342\\226\\263\\n" } else { print "HW65001 This program requires a Unicode compatible terminal"|"cat 1>&2" exit 252 # Incompatible hardware }