Bug 166732

Summary: 'split'/'index' problem for utf8
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Jason Gallagher <jason>
Component: perlAssignee: Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 3.0CC: poelstra, prockai
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=22375
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-881 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Jason Gallagher 2005-08-24 23:49:21 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Red Hat/1.7.10-1.1.3.1

Description of problem:
This is a known Perl bug (see URL above), fixed in 5.8.1.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.0-89.10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. perl -MConfig -we 'print $Config{libc}, "\n", $Config{lib_ext},"\n"'
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  output is:
/lib/libc-2.3.2.so
.a'
libc='


Expected Results:  output should be:
/lib/libc-2.3.2.so
.a



Additional info:

The test above is run with env var LANG=en_GB.UTF-8. If one does:

LANG=C perl -MConfig -we 'print $Config{libc}, "\n", $Config{lib_ext},"\n"'

the expected output is produced.

Comment 1 Jason Gallagher 2005-08-24 23:52:53 UTC
Use login=guest, password=guest for access to the given URL.


Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2005-11-01 18:09:37 UTC
This bug is now fixed with perl-5.8.0-90.2 .

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-12-20 14:59:11 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