[Bug binutils/27551] New: The default encoding of the strings utility does not conform to POSIX: should honor the current locale.

[vincent-srcware at vinc17 dot net]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27551

            Bug ID: 27551
           Summary: The default encoding of the strings utility does not
                    conform to POSIX: should honor the current locale.
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.35.2
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: vincent-srcware at vinc17 dot net
  Target Milestone: ---

The default encoding of the "strings" utility is documented to be
"single-7-bit-byte characters", i.e. ASCII. But
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/strings.html says:

  LC_CTYPE
    Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text
data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte
characters in arguments and input files) and to identify printable strings.

I get:

zira% printenv LC_CTYPE
C.UTF-8
zira% echo abcdéfghi | strings
abcd
fghi

while "strings" should have output:

abcdéfghi

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