Re: Some utf-8 characters are cut in the middle on redirections

[Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 11:05:42PM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> $ touch ??
> $ echo 1 > ??
> $ ls
> ?  ??
> $ ls | hexdump -C
> 00000000  cf 0a cf 81 0a

> dash "cut" the "0x81" from the "0xcf81" representation of the Greek
> character rho, and so it created another file named "0xcf".

> This only happens for a few utf-8 characters, not for all of them.
> Relevant bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532302

This bug is fixed in git commit f8231aea37e921492fc7fbd972385ab5b90e8627
which is not in any dash release yet.

The patch should apply to older dash versions also.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker
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