On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:40:09 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 18:08 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > What is "en_DE.UTF-8", exactly? [...] > > Could this non-existent locale maybe confuse the ruby-unicode > > library? > > No it is existent... it's just my own locale... which is basically just > a modification of en_US ... that is everything English, but ISO > conformant date/time formats, "," as decimal separator and things like > that. > > Never made a problem so far (and I've been using this for decades ;-) > ).
Ah, OK, so you created it and manually installed it on your system.
Well, it could be that the ruby-unicode library has some subtle bug which
makes it fail (sometimes) with your custom locale.
Or maybe it's the other way around, I don't know.
[...]
> Well, as said, it didn't even happen with the same locale...
Let's try the following strategy.
If you can (at least sporadically) reproduce the error with the
following minimal Ruby script, please file a bug report against the
ruby-unicode library.
The script is:
$ cat unicode-ruby.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'unicode'
puts Unicode.width("รจ")
After giving it execution permissions:
$ chmod +x unicode-ruby.rb
just run it:
$ ./unicode-ruby.rb
1
If it fails with your locale, then there seems to be some
incompatibility between your custom locale and ruby-unicode.
On the other hand, if you never see any errors with the minimal script
or again with apt-listbugs, then the issue seems to be unreproducible.
In the meanwhile, I will close this bug report, since the bug does not
seem to be in package apt-listbugs.
Do you agree with this plan?
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