From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To: Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg@gmail.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some utf-8 characters are cut in the middle on redirections
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 14:21:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100808122128.GB83441@stack.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281211542.6631.49.camel@alkis>
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 11:05:42PM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> $ touch ??
> $ echo 1 > ??
> $ ls
> ? ??
> $ ls | hexdump -C
> 00000000 cf 0a cf 81 0a
> dash "cut" the "0x81" from the "0xcf81" representation of the Greek
> character rho, and so it created another file named "0xcf".
> This only happens for a few utf-8 characters, not for all of them.
> Relevant bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532302
This bug is fixed in git commit f8231aea37e921492fc7fbd972385ab5b90e8627
which is not in any dash release yet.
The patch should apply to older dash versions also.
--
Jilles Tjoelker
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-08 12:21 UTC|newest]
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2010-08-07 20:05 Some utf-8 characters are cut in the middle on redirections Alkis Georgopoulos
2010-08-08 12:21 ` Jilles Tjoelker [this message]
2010-08-08 12:42 ` Alkis Georgopoulos
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