On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 02:32:45PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Previously this "worked" but I notice that now with at this the
> current Sid version it produces the following noise upon exit.
>
> rwp@sid:~$ env -i PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME USER=$USER TERM=$TERM MANWIDTH=80
> man --encoding=ASCII mv
> man: command exited with status 127: iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
> | sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }' |
> LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page mv(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB
> %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page mv(1) ?ltline
> %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to
> quit)$ MAN_PN=mv(1) pager
[...]
> Clearly I can change from ASCII to ascii and have the behavior I
> desire without an error but I report the problem regardless because it
> is a new bug appearing from somewhere. iconv itself is working.
>
> rwp@sid:~$ iconv --list | grep -i ascii
> ASCII//
> CSASCII//
> US-ASCII//
>
> rwp@sid:~$ echo dæmon | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
> daemon
The change in behaviour is due to a change in iconv(1). On bookworm:
$ echo dæmon | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT; echo $?
daemon
0
On trixie:
$ echo dæmon | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT; echo $?
daemon
1
I'm not currently sure whether this is a glibc bug, a case where man(1)
was always invoking iconv(1) wrongly but it only just started noticing,
or some difference in my test environments other than the OS version.
--
Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
