Printing Chinese from Awk

Hi How to print Chinese from inside an Awk program like awk 'BEGIN{printf "%c\n", ucode}' where is ucode is the Unicode code value of the character. However %c works only for single byte chars. I'm using GNU awk 3.1.1 from SuSE 8.1. Friedrich -- Friedrich Dimmling Berlin, Germany www.friedrich-dimmling.de