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Red Hat Bugzilla 2022-05-12 12:39:26 UTC Pool ID sst_pt_gcc_glibc_rhel_8
Martin Coufal 2022-05-12 12:46:37 UTC QA Contact qe-baseos-tools-bugs mcoufal
Red Hat One Jira (issues.redhat.com) 2022-05-12 12:47:33 UTC Link ID Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-121849
Florian Weimer 2022-05-13 13:21:39 UTC Status NEW ASSIGNED
Arjun Shankar 2022-05-16 16:30:35 UTC Fixed In Version glibc-2.28-189.3.el8_6
Status ASSIGNED MODIFIED
Arjun Shankar 2022-05-16 20:51:30 UTC Doc Type If docs needed, set a value Bug Fix
Doc Text Cause:
The IBM256, IBM277, IBM278, IBM280, IBM284, IBM297, IBM424 character sets encoded the EBCDIC codepoint 0xBC as the Unicode character U+203E OVERLINE.

Consequence:
When using the `iconv' program provided by glibc, converting text in those cahracter sets which contain the 0xBC codepoint fails for non-Unicode character sets such as ISO-8859-1 because they cannot encode the U+203E OVERLINE character.

Fix:
The mapping for the 0xBC codepoint for those IBM character sets is changed to U+00AF MACRON.

Result:
Input in the IBM277, IBM278, IBM280, IBM284, IBM297 character sets can now be converted to ISO-8859-1 in all cases. For the IBM256 and IBM424 character sets, conversion no longer fails if the input text contains the 0xBC codepoint, and U+00AF MACRON is used in the output.
errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-17 14:11:02 UTC Status MODIFIED ON_QA
Martin Coufal 2022-05-26 14:00:01 UTC Status ON_QA VERIFIED
errata-xmlrpc 2022-06-16 00:13:55 UTC Status VERIFIED RELEASE_PENDING
errata-xmlrpc 2022-06-16 11:10:01 UTC Resolution --- ERRATA
Status RELEASE_PENDING CLOSED
Last Closed 2022-06-16 11:10:01 UTC
Mark O'Brien 2023-07-18 14:30:35 UTC Pool ID sst_pt_glibc_rhel_8 sst_pt_libraries_rhel_8

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