Public bug reported:
Ubuntu 10.04: bsdmainutils 8.0.1ubuntu1
Ubuntu 12.04: bsdmainutils 8.2.3ubuntu1
Ubuntu 14.04: bsdmainutils 9.0.5ubuntu1
column won't produce any output if the file encoding isn't recognized.
With Ubuntu 8.04 the output of unknown characters were crippled, but
there was still an output. This changed since fgetws is used to read the
characters (instead of fgets).
With Ubuntu 14.04 there is at least an error message instead of an empty
output:
[ubu1404] # column -t -s ';' bar
column: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
[ubu1204] # column -t -s ';' bar
[ubu1204] # echo $?
0
[ubu1204] # cat bar
1;ä
2;ö
3;ü
[ubu1404] # file foo bar
foo: UTF-8 Unicode text, with CRLF line terminators
bar: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators
Even with the correct locale setting it won't change anything:
[ubu1404] # LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 column -t -s ';' bar
column: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
With foo everything works as expected:
[ubu1404] # cat foo
1;ä
2;ö
3;ü
[ubu1404] # column -t -s ';' foo
1 ä
2 ö
3 ü
I guess this is related to bug #1065329 - but if I see that correctly,
it's not limited to Ubuntu, it's a general fgetws problem.
** Affects: bsdmainutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "both test files (foo & bar)"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1331521/+attachment/4134232/+files/foobar.tgz
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