Randy McMurchy wrote: > ======================================================================== > Caution > > Ed determines character boundaries incorrectly in multibyte locales. See > the Breaks Multibyte Characters section of the Locale Related Issues > page for a more general discussion of this problem. Use of Ed in > installation instructions for BLFS packages such as teTeX-3.0 is not a > problem, as BLFS instructions never use Ed to modify a file containing > non-ASCII characters. > ========================================================================
Debian has fixed it even for ed-0.2 by the following patch that switches from internal regex implementation to glibc functions: --- ed-0.2.orig/Makefile.in +++ ed-0.2/Makefile.in @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ all: ed -ed: $(OBJECTS) libed.a - $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o ed $(OBJECTS) libed.a $(LIBS) +ed: $(OBJECTS) + $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o ed $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS) buf.o: ed.h config.h regex.h ed.o: ed.h config.h regex.h In ed-0.6, the problem doesn't exist. Here is the testcase (to be run in any UTF-8 based locale): $ ./ed a абвг . s/./!/g p !!!! # in a buggy ed, you'll see 8 exclamation marks instead of 4 Q -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
