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bug#33044: Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale
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Tom de Vries |
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bug#33044: Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale |
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Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:38:16 +0200 |
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On 10/16/18 7:13 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> While investigating, I found this bug for GNU libc asking to add an SJIS
> locale, and the developers were strongly opposed:
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136290
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Thanks for the pointer, that was interesting reading.
> At this point, I'm inclined to believe that Shift_JIS is not suitable as
> a locale encoding on POSIX systems, and that we should not try to
> support it in Guile.
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> What do you think?
My interest here is limited to fixing a gdb regression, so for me not
supporting it is fine. Though we should have a reasonable failure mode
(so, not abort as is the case for this report).
Thanks,
- Tom
- bug#33044: Invalid read access of chars of wide string in scm_seed_to_random_state, Tom de Vries, 2018/10/15
- bug#33044: Reproduced using guile binary, Tom de Vries, 2018/10/15
- bug#33044: Analysis and proposed patch, Tom de Vries, 2018/10/15
- bug#33044: Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale, Mark H Weaver, 2018/10/15
- bug#33044: Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale, Tom de Vries, 2018/10/16
- bug#33044: Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale, Mark H Weaver, 2018/10/17
- bug#33044: Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale, Tom de Vries, 2018/10/18
- bug#33044: Guile misbehaves in the "ja_JP.sjis" locale, Mark H Weaver, 2018/10/19