Tue Dec 27 01:31:33 2011: Request 73491 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by gyp...@gmail.com
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: cache directory naming problem
Broken in: 1.012
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: gyp...@gmail.com
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73491 >
Hello,
I'm using:
* MS Windows XP ServicePack3 32bit
* Strawberry Perl 5.12.3
* PAR::Packer 1.012
I made a simple Perl script, and made a .exe file using
pp -o app.exe app.pl
This app.exe works very well when the username(of windows system) is in
English. However, it happens to fail to create a cache directory if the
username is a sort of string of Korean characters.
I attached the screenshot, hoping it would be helpful to you.
I looked into the error message and I found that the original username
is changed to be an illegal byte sequence:
* from 0x ba ce be fb c0 cc (3character, 6bytes, encoded with cp949)
* to 0x ba ce be 5f c0 cc
I guess this is because the following code in SetupTemp.pm:
$username =~ s/\W/_/g;
or, equivalent C-code in mktmpdir.c:
/* replace all non-alphanumeric letters with '_' */
for ( c = username ; *c != '\0' ; c++ ) {
if ( !isalnum(*c) ) {
*c = '_';
}
}
doesn't consider Non-latin characters.
Would you please check it? I think that it would be good idea to use "%-
encoding" for all non-latin characters, so that the username in the
screenshot would be changed into "par-%ba%ce%be%fb%c0%cc". ('%' may be
removed)
One other idea is to replace 'every bytes in non-ascii range' with '_',
but this may change many different non-latin usernames of same length
to same string, eg. "______".
Thank you for this good module.
Sincerly,
Geunyoung Park from South Korea
P.S.
This problem is issued initialy in a Korean perl user community
by "@owl0908", not me. His original blog post is here (written in
Korean):
http://www.dormouse.pe.kr/blogtool/article/410/
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