Bug 137075

Summary: Apparent utf8 bug in Perl's join()
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Daniel Fisher <dfisher>
Component: perlAssignee: Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
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Version: 3.0CC: jnovy, tao, wtogami
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-881 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Daniel Fisher 2004-10-25 17:48:00 UTC 
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Description of problem:
(Submitting for a customer)

There is a bug in the 'join' function.
It is documented at:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=24846

Here is a test case:
use strict;
use Encode qw(is_utf8);
use Test::More qw(no_plan);
my $ascii = "abc\304";
my $utf8 = "abc\x{0100}";
for ($utf8, $ascii) {
my $res = join("", $_);
is(is_utf8($res), $_ eq $utf8);
}
__END__

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create program specified above
2. program should come back with 2 OK's, but only comes back with 1
3.
    

Additional info:
Comment 1 Marc David Rovner 2004-12-10 19:17:39 UTC 
ping?
Comment 2 Marc David Rovner 2005-02-17 21:41:14 UTC 
Still no update, eh?
Comment 6 Jason Vas Dias 2005-11-09 03:34:39 UTC 
This is upstream perl bug '24846: Apparent utf8 bug in join()', 
   http://rt.perl.org/rt3/index.html?q=24846
fixed with upstream patch 22117, now applied to perl-5.8.0-90.2 in CVS .
Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-12-20 14:57:52 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-881.html