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Re: printf %d $'"\xff' returns random values in UTF-8 and 0 in C locale
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: printf %d $'"\xff' returns random values in UTF-8 and 0 in C locale |
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Sun, 17 Sep 2017 18:05:55 -0400 |
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On 9/17/17 6:01 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> $ locale charmap
> UTF-8
> $ bash -c '"$@"' sh printf '%d\n' $'"\xff' $'"\xff' $'"\xff'
> 32767
> 0
> 0
>
> That's because we store the return value of mblen() (which may be
> -1) into a size_t (unsigned) variable.
>
> See patch below which aligns the behaviour with that of other
> shells which use the byte value when the initial sequence of
> bytes can't be converted to a character.
Thanks for the report. I'll take a look.
Chet
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