Re: LSB Cert PRs reviewed PR#0037
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 20:22, Matt Taggart wrote:
> The LSB Specification Authority group met today and they reviewed a couple of
> the Problem Reports I had filed and gave responses.
>
> PR#0037 http://tracking.opengroup.org/lsb/publicpr/PRView?PR=0037
> This was the one for commands(coreutils,diff,cpio) multibyte support. They
> issued an "Interpretation(INT) and these comments,
>
> "The SA agrees that for LSB 1.3 that the diff, fold, pr,
> sort, uniq and wc utilities need not interpret sequences of multibyte
> characters according to the LC_CTYPE category of the locale.
> An interpretation is granted."
>
> This means that we would not be required to pass these tests as part of
> certification.
>
> We now need to determine if we're willing to accept the resolution given, or
> wish to appeal it.
>
> Any comments?
This may be late, and I apologize if it is, but:
What about expand and unexpand, both of which seem to fail by my tests,
and both of which are in coreutils?
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