..character set mixup bug in bash-2.05b-5, Sylpheed-0.8.9 and/or Red Hat 8

[Arnt Karlsen]

Hi,

..I believe I have found a character set mixup bug in either 
Sylpheed-0.8.9, bash-2.05b-5 and/or Red Hat 8, possibly in all.

..config info below description:

..it appears these funny "�" boxes in cat/bash replace the norvegian
letters æ, ø, and å, and chops off the immediately folloving
character in bash, and removes the entire line in sylpheed.

..note that I have now set the character set to UTF-8, so I can 
read my own norwegian messages.  Auto used to "work" fine.  ;-)

..what I found in ~/Mail/z-inbox/3 according to sylpheed-0.8.9-1:

From: "Rune Solheim" <rune.solheim@dn.nhst.no>
To: arnt@c2i.net
Subject: Ang.DN fra 23/1
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:47:52 +0100
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I)

 Hei.

  med morgendagens avis.
  som avtalt.

 mvh
 Rune Solheim
 Gruppeleder Kundeservice
 

..what I found in ~/Mail/z-inbox/3 according to bash-2.05b-5:
("\" is where I (and not bash) chop the long lines)

[arnt@lana z-inbox]$ cat 3
Return-Path: <rune.solheim@dn.nhst.no>
Received: from popw.c2i.net [130.244.199.220]
        by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.0 polling popw.c2i.net \
account xxxxxx)        
        for arnt@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:51:28 \
+0100 (CET) 
Received: from names.nhst.no ([195.0.192.66]) by fep10-svc.swip.net
          with ESMTP
          id <20030124123945.BCLQ17935.fep10-svc.swip.net@names.nhst.no>
          for <arnt@c2i.net>; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:39:45 +0100
Received: from dn.nhst.no ([172.20.52.67]) by names.nhst.no
          (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H97XTZ00.LEB \
for     
          <arnt@c2i.net>; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:39:35 +0100
Message-ID: <3E3135F8.21517AB8@dn.nhst.no>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:47:52 +0100
From: "Rune Solheim" <rune.solheim@dn.nhst.no>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: arnt@c2i.net
Subject: Ang.DN fra 23/1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Hei.

Har snakket med v� distributr og vi skal f�etterlevert avisen
sammens med morgendagens avis.
De tar dette ogs�opp med budet og skal se til at avisen kommer hver
dag som avtalt.

mvh
Rune Solheim
Gruppeleder Kundeservice
Dagens N�ingsliv AS


..what actually Rune wrote according to mcedit-4.5.55-12:
("\" is where I (and not mcedit) chop the long lines)

[arnt@lana z-inbox]$ mcedit 3
Return-Path: <rune.solheim@dn.nhst.no>
Received: from popw.c2i.net [130.244.199.220]
        by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.0 polling popw.c2i.net \
account xxxxxx)        
        for arnt@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:51:28 \
+0100 (CET) 
Received: from names.nhst.no ([195.0.192.66]) by fep10-svc.swip.net 
        with ESMTP
        id <20030124123945.BCLQ17935.fep10-svc.swip.net@names.nhst.no>
        for <arnt@c2i.net>; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:39:45 +0100
Received: from dn.nhst.no ([172.20.52.67]) by names.nhst.no
        (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H97XTZ00.LEB \
for     
        <arnt@c2i.net>; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:39:35 +0100
Message-ID: <3E3135F8.21517AB8@dn.nhst.no>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:47:52 +0100
From: "Rune Solheim" <rune.solheim@dn.nhst.no>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: arnt@c2i.net
Subject: Ang.DN fra 23/1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Hei.

Har snakket med vår distributør og vi skal få etterlevert avisen
sammens med morgendagens avis.
De tar dette også opp med budet og skal se til at avisen kommer hver
dag som avtalt.

mvh
Rune Solheim
Gruppeleder Kundeservice
Dagens Næringsliv AS


..it appears the funny "�"'s replace the norvegian letters 
æ, ø, å and chops off the following character in bash, 
and in sylpheed, just chops the entire line off.

..$ cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
Kernel \r on an \m

..(AFAIR, upgraded nicely from 7.3.)


..$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:no_NO.UTF-8:no_NO:no:nn_\
NO.UTF-8:nn_NO:nn" 
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

..$ bashbug

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib
-D_GNU_SOURCE  -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 uname output: Linux
lana.fmb.no 2.4.18-19.8.0 #1 Thu Dec 12 04:58:36 EST 2002 i586 i586 i386
GNU/Linux Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 2.05b
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:
..it appears these funny "�" boxes in cat/bash replace the norvegian
letters æ, ø, and å, and chops off the immediately folloving
character in bash, and removes the entire line in sylpheed.

Repeat-By:  
..install Red Hat 7.3 with _all_ the goodies, upgrade to 8.0, move to
utf-8, then update to newest sylpheed, then send norwegian language 
mail to newspaper distributor asking where the hell is my newspaper, 
and finally read polite response.


Fix:
..advice me if you need more info.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.