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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: kturtle: Inappropriate characters in logo file names produces failures in locate and other tools
- From: James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 07:06:14 +0100
- Message-id: <20050606060615.10EB7140D5@orbital.spiral-arm.org>
Package: kturtle
Version: 4:3.3.2-3
Severity: important
Tags: l10n
Some of the file names in this package are in the Latin-1 character
encoding scheme:
$ ls -1 /usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8
carr�ogo
enroul�ogo
exemple1.logo
triangle.logo
If the user's locale is one which uses some other character encoding
scheme, these can generate incorrect results in other system tools,
for example coreutils and findutils. This is because the '�character forms a leading byte of an invalid multibyte character
sequence in UTF-8.
The effect of this is that such filenames fail to match the glob
characters ? and *. Essentially, "ls", "find" and "locate" (among
other things) generate the wrong result for these files. If the user
modifies their locale to an ISO-8859-1 locale, then these filenames
are not a problem.
However, I think it's inappropriate for Debian packages to use
filenames that cause other tools (also from Debian packages) to work
incorrectly:-
$ ( find . ; echo ===; find . -name '*' ) | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8
.
./triangle.logo
./carr�ogo
./enroul�ogo
./exemple1.logo
===
.
./triangle.logo
./exemple1.logo
$ /bin/ls --ignore='*' | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8
carr�ogo
enroul�ogo
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kturtle depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.2-6.1 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-7 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.13-1.0 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.4-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 1:0.8.3-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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