On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 12:18:31PM +0100, Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Dr. Werner Fink <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just to say the change
> >
> > 11-05-27 A bug with command substitution with the shift jis locale has
> > been
> > fixed.
> >
> > has been removed from ksh93u+ 2012-08-01 as well as from ksh93v found in the
> > git repository. Please re-add the change as e.g. found in the attachment.
> > Maybe together some more comments to avoid such drops. Even if the code
> > works
> > for e.g. UTF-8 ... Shift-JIS is special as it includes ASCII characters in
> > its multi byte encoding. Without this patch my own regression check will
> > trow out errors (see second attachment).
>
> Didn't the patch cause problems with some kind of command
> substitutions which included multibyte characters? I recall Roland and
> David running into such problems with the XML parsing scripts.
Hmmm ... then it would be better to extend this patch. I've a lot of
Japaneese users with old ksh scripts mostly written in Shift-JIS encoding.
Werner
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