[Adduser-devel] Bug#178482: with UTF-8 locales, recodes non-ascii chars in user messages TWICE

[Marc Haber]

user adduser at packages.debian.org
usertag #178482 feedback-needed
tags #178482 moreinfo
thanks

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:31:53PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> F????ge Benutzer boehmann in Gruppe uucp hinzu...
> Fertig.
> 
> It seems that the string is already in UTF-8, and then somewhere
> interpreted as Latin1 and recoded again and we see four bytes.

[1/501]mh at lefler[chroot sid-adduser]:~$ export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
[2/502]mh at lefler[chroot sid-adduser]:~$ export LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
[5/505]mh at lefler[chroot sid-adduser]:~$ sudo adduser mh uucp > file.bla
[6/506]mh at lefler[chroot sid-adduser]:~$ cat file.bla
Füge Benutzer mh in Gruppe uucp hinzu...
Fertig.
[7/507]mh at lefler[chroot sid-adduser]:~$ logout
[16/515]mh at lefler:~/chroot$ cd sid-adduser
[17/516]mh at lefler:~/chroot/sid-adduser/home/mh$ ls
Makefile  adduser/  devel/  file.bla
[18/517]mh at lefler:~/chroot/sid-adduser/home/mh$ hexadump file.bla
00000000 46 c3 bc 67  65 20 42 65  6e 75 74 7a  65 72 20 6d  Füge Benutzer m
00000010 68 20 69 6e  20 47 72 75  70 70 65 20  75 75 63 70  h in Gruppe uucp
00000020 20 68 69 6e  7a 75 2e 2e  2e 0a 46 65  72 74 69 67 hinzu....Fertig
00000030 2e 0a                                               ..

I do not have a clue about UTF-8, but this looks like only two bytes
were printed. Can you please check if this bug still applies after two
and a half years?

Greetings
Marc

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