expand doesn't support multibyte characters (utf-8)
Bug #535102 reported by
Herbert Thielen
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| coreutils |
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| coreutils (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: coreutils
'expand' doesn't replace tab characters by the correct number of spaces in case the input data contains multibyte characters, e.g. german umlauts when using the locale UTF-8.
A small example test file is attached.
I've attached a patch to coreutils 8.4 which works for me, but I'm not experienced in wide character programming, so there might still be some problem - more tests and review needed.
Thanks for the work, best regards
Herbert.
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| C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in coreutils (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: patch |
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added: patch-upstreaminput removed: patch |
| Changed in coreutils (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| tags: | added: kernel-series-unknown |
| tags: | removed: kernel-series-unknown |
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sample input file attached