Robbin Kawabata, the Sun engineer who has worked with tr and
UTF-8 locales, is looking into this and will be replying to this thread
on what she finds.
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> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:32:36 -0400
> From: Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com>
> To: ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] [Bug 585] New: Old libtools think
OpenSolaris uses EBCDIC
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>
> my guess is there is an interaction in /usr/bin/tr between some UTF-8 locale
> and the invalid UTF-8 character '\301' which voids the A => '\301' map
> and simply maps A => A
>
> it would be nice to verify this
>
> in any case, the original code snippet should be run with LC_ALL=C and/or
LANG=C
>
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:16:20 +0100 Chris Ridd wrote:
> > On 20 Oct 2008, at 18:58, Glenn Fowler wrote:
>
> > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:39:48 +0100 Chris Ridd wrote:
> > >> On 20 Oct 2008, at 14:08, Glenn Fowler wrote:
> > >>> can you truss the bad machine to see the tr read and write calls
> > >> It isn't very illuminating I'm afraid:
> > >
> > > it does implicate tr
> > > it looks like it gets the literal args 'A' '\301'
> > > it reads " A\n" and writes " A\n"
>
> > I called a little C program (instead of tr) to print out argv[][]
> > carefully, and argv[1] was the characters "A" and NUL, and argv[2] was
> > the characters "\", "3", "0", "1" and NUL.
>
> > > what are your locale env var settings { LANG LC_* } ?
>
> > No LC_* variables are set, but LANG is "en_GB.UTF-8"
>
> > So if I unset LANG, tr writes "\301\n".
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Chris
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