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Re: expansion of \uXXXX in non utf8 locales
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: expansion of \uXXXX in non utf8 locales |
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Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:50:17 -0500 |
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On 12/20/12 9:00 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 36 (same with 39)
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> There seems to be a bug with the expansion of \uXXXX
> where XXXX > 0xFF in non UTF8 locales
Yes, bash-4.2 doesn't do good enough error checking on the return value
from wctomb. This will be fixed in the next release; the new code has been
in the development branch for some time.
Chet
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