Package: dash Version: 0.5.3-3 Severity: normal dash improperly handles two cyrillic characters in assignment to shell variable. All other characters are processed ok.
Reproduceable example is below: $ echo ш | hexdump 0000000 88d1 000a $ LETTER=ш $ echo $LETTER | hexdump 0000000 0ad1 $ echo с | hexdump 0000000 81d1 000a $ LETTER=с $ echo $LETTER | hexdump 0000000 20d1 6d75 0a70 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=uk_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dash depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dash recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded
