$ locale charmap
UTF-8
$ bash -c '"$@"' sh printf '%d\n' $'"\xff' $'"\xff' $'"\xff'
32767
0
0
That's because we store the return value of mblen() (which may be
-1) into a size_t (unsigned) variable.
See patch below which aligns the behaviour with that of other
shells which use the byte value when
Sorry, subject was wrong. The behaviour is OK in the C locale.
--
Stephane
2017-09-17 11:01:00 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
>wchar_t wc;
> - size_t mblength, slen;
> + int mblength;
[...]
> + mblength = mbtowc (&wc, garglist->word->word+1, slen);
> + if (mblength > 0)
> +ch = wc;
[...]
Actually, "wc" should probably be initialised to 0 to cover for
cases w
On 9/16/17 11:16 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Now to the philosophical ... I agree with the aims of free software, but
> I believe that should be interpreted correctly - that is, if software is
> free, it should impose no restrictions at all upon is recipients, which
> includes hidden "you should recip
On 9/17/17 6:01 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> $ locale charmap
> UTF-8
> $ bash -c '"$@"' sh printf '%d\n' $'"\xff' $'"\xff' $'"\xff'
> 32767
> 0
> 0
>
> That's because we store the return value of mblen() (which may be
> -1) into a size_t (unsigned) variable.
>
> See patch below which aligns th
