Re: Character corruption

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/19/21 10:02 AM, Кириллов Дима wrote:

>     Bash Version: 5.1
>     Patch Level: 4
>     Release Status: release
>
>     Description:
>     Two bytes unicode characters getting corrupted under certain
>     circumstances around every 5th attempt of running below command
>
>     Repeat-By:
>     1) create an UTF-8 file which contains 510 'A' characters, newline
>     ('\n') and some two bytes unicode character (f.e. russian letter 'Я')
>     (file size should be equal to 513 bytes after that)
>     File can be created using following script in python 3:

Thanks for the report. This looks like the same issue as the one reported
in https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?10035

which was fixed a few weeks ago in the devel branch.

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