On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 06:23:19PM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote: > Seeing some weird behaviour here building Bison 3.7 on musl libc. > > Something seems to be "intelligent" enough to know that \u2022 is a > bullet character, and is replacing it with "*" instead of ".", causing > all the tests to fail: > > awilcox on gwyn [17] bison: LC_ALL=C /bin/printf '\u2022\n' | od -t x1 > 0000000 2a 0a > 0000002
I don't think the '*' has anything to do with it being a bullet character. It's just the implementation-defined replacement character musl's iconv uses. I would guess the code in bison and coreutils printf is assuming the non-conforming glibc behavior for iconv of returning an error if a character from the input is not exactly representable in the output, rather than making replacements and returning the number of inexact conversions made. Rich
