Bug 2084564 - glibc: iconv: missing macron (unicode 0xAF) in EBCDIC-CP-ES (IBM284) [rhel-8.6.0.z]
Summary: glibc: iconv: missing macron (unicode 0xAF) in EBCDIC-CP-ES (IBM284) [rhel-8....
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: glibc
Version: 8.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Arjun Shankar
QA Contact: Martin Coufal
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Depends On: 1961109
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-05-12 12:39 UTC by RHEL Program Management Team
Modified: 2023-07-18 14:30 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glibc-2.28-189.3.el8_6
Doc Type: 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.
Clone Of: 1961109
Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-06-16 11:10:01 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-121849 0 None None None 2022-05-12 12:47:33 UTC

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2022-06-16 11:10:01 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (glibc bug fix update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:5081
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