Bug 717282

Summary:	Printing troubles of wide and single-byte character sequences using LANG=C
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Vojtech Vitek <vvitek>
Component:	tcsh617	Assignee:	Fridolín Pokorný <fpokorny>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	5.7	CC:	hripps, lmiksik, ovasik, psplicha
Target Milestone:	rc
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2013-05-07 08:36:40 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	717367, 1273895

Description Vojtech Vitek 2011-06-28 14:03:42 UTC

Description of problem:
tcsh has some troubles with printing sequences of wide (eg. 'ö') and single-byte ASCII characters (eg. 'a') using LANG=C.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set LANG=C
2. Start tcsh
3. Type a wide character (eg. 'ö')
4. Type any single-byte ASCII character (eg. 'a')
  
Actual results:
The single character is printed 6 times instead of just once. For example when "öa" is typed, "aaaaaa" is printed.

Expected results:
The single character shall be printed just once, as expected.

Additional info:
The bug was revealed in bug 676305 comment 5.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2012-04-02 10:33:04 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 11 RHEL Program Management 2013-05-01 06:53:12 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 12 Fridolín Pokorný 2013-05-07 08:36:40 UTC

Extracted upstream patch from #717367 fixes this issue too.

I am sorry, but it is now too late in the RHEL-5 release cycle.
RHEL-5.10 (the next RHEL-5 minor release) is going to be the first
production phase 2 [1] release of RHEL-5. Since phase 2 we'll be
addressing only security and critical issues.

This one issue is fixed in RHEL-6 therefore I am closing the bug as
WONTFIX.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/