Bug#833892: perl-base: possible bug in perl "\u" string processing

2016-08-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 23:51 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > As per the upstream bug, I'm closing this as it appears to be not, > in fact, a bug. Thanks for taking care on this... my assumption was that even for titlecase, ß should result in SS, which was apparently wrong. Cheers, Chris. smime

Bug#833892: perl-base: possible bug in perl "\u" string processing

2016-08-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: perl-base Version: 5.22.2-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hey. The following might be a bug in how Perl uppercases strings as in e.g.: print "\uf"; perlop(1) already documents, that in Unicode context, this can result in inserting addition characters. Typical example is: U+00DF LATIN