On 09/16/2012 07:46 AM, Max Horn wrote: > so, any news on this?
No, and it's been some time, so I pushed the July patch, as follows. Thanks for following up on this. localcharset: work around Mac OS X bug with UTF-8 and MB_CUR_MAX * lib/localcharset.c (locale_charset) [DARWIN7]: Return "ASCII" if the system reports "UTF-8" and MB_CUR_MAX <= 1, as these two values are incompatible. Problem reported by Max Horn. For more discussion, please see <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-09/msg00061.html>. diff --git a/lib/localcharset.c b/lib/localcharset.c index 54a2432..1a94042 100644 --- a/lib/localcharset.c +++ b/lib/localcharset.c @@ -542,5 +542,12 @@ locale_charset (void) if (codeset[0] == '\0') codeset = "ASCII"; +#ifdef DARWIN7 + /* Mac OS X sets MB_CUR_MAX to 1 when LC_ALL=C, and "UTF-8" + (the default codeset) does not work when MB_CUR_MAX is 1. */ + if (strcmp (codeset, "UTF-8") == 0 && MB_CUR_MAX <= 1) + codeset = "ASCII"; +#endif + return codeset; }
