Bug 431041
| Summary: | "perldoc perlvar" renders incorrectly in C and en_US.UTF-8 locales. | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Alex Page <alexp> | |
| Component: | perl | Assignee: | Stepan Kasal <kasal> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | low | |||
| Version: | 5.1 | CC: | mmaslano, psplicha | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | |||
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
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| : | 554654 957079 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 21:11:18 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 957079 | |||
The report does not exactly say what's the problem. Looking at the Actual&Expected output, I noticed only one the various apostrophes after the dollar signes are garbled (as if they were part of text quoting). Let me investigate. Bug confirmed. The problem is that perldoc is based on nroff, and in nroff, these two ASCII characters (GRAVE accent and APOSTROPHE) do not map to themselves. In nroff, you can use \` and \(aq, respectively, to get the characters. But AFAIK, this is not mapped to perldoc. A possible fix is to use C<$`> and C<$'>, perldoc will then map the chars to these control sequences. (Unfortunately, it will also enclose the string into a pair of quotes (for nroff on tty, troff output is ok), but that's still smaller evil then the original garbage.) This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. 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 therefore 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/RHBA-2009-0117.html |
Description of problem: The rendering of the ASCII document /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perlvar.pod by the "perldoc" program produces incorrect output in different locales. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q perl perl-5.8.8-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo $LANG 2. LANG=C perldoc perlvar | egrep -A 1 ' \$(PRE|POST)MATCH' 3. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 perldoc perlvar | egrep -A 1 ' \$(PRE|POST)MATCH' 4. LANG=C egrep -A 2 '=item \$(PRE| POST)MATCH' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perlvar.pod 5. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 egrep -A 2 '=item \$(PRE| POST)MATCH' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perlvar.pod Actual results: 1. en_US.UTF-8 2. $PREMATCH $' The string preceding whatever was matched by the last success- -- $POSTMATCH $' The string following whatever was matched by the last success- 3. $PREMATCH $‘ The string preceding whatever was matched by the last success- -- $POSTMATCH $’ The string following whatever was matched by the last success- 4. & 5. =item $PREMATCH =item $` -- =item $POSTMATCH =item $' Expected results: 1. en_US.utf-8 2. & 3. $PREMATCH $` The string preceding whatever was matched by the last success- -- $POSTMATCH $' The string following whatever was matched by the last success- 4. & 5. =item $PREMATCH =item $` -- =item $POSTMATCH =item $' Additional info: