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Bug 503805 - Issues with multibyte support and the -i argument to grep
Summary: Issues with multibyte support and the -i argument to grep
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: grep
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Michal Nowak
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-02 19:39 UTC by Stew Benedict
Modified: 2013-03-08 02:06 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: grep-2.6.3-1.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-11-10 20:35:10 UTC
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Description Stew Benedict 2009-06-02 19:39:43 UTC 
Description of problem:
We're seeing LSB tests for i18n support fail on a few distributions shipping latest versions of grep. What some distributions have found is that a patch that previously was added to fix an issue needs to be backed off.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grep-2.5.3-4.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install lsb-test-core
2. run the tests
3.
  
Actual results:
FAILS:
/tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/egrep-tp/T.egrep-tp 5 FAIL
  * Verify this utility can handle the patterns which contain multibyte
characters.

* Verify this utility can handle the files which contain multibyte patterns.

* Verify this utility can match the strings which contain multibyte characters.

* Verify this utility can match the files which contain multibyte characters.

* Verify this utility can perform pattern matching in searches without regard
to case if -i option is specified.

Can't handle a pattern "Ａï½ï½ï¼¤" with -i.

/tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/grep-tp/T.grep-tp 5 FAIL
  * Verify this utility can handle the patterns which contain multibyte
characters.

* Verify this utility can handle the files which contain multibyte patterns.

* Verify this utility can match the strings which contain multibyte characters.

* Verify this utility can match the files which contain multibyte characters.

* Verify this utility can perform pattern matching in searches without regard
to case if -i option is specified.

Can't handle a pattern "Ａï½ï½ï¼¤" with -i.


Expected results:
tests should pass

Additional info:
test source in bzr:
http://bzr.linux-foundation.org/lsb/devel/runtime-test?cmd=content;rev=ajosey-20030319171249-0b7508fbb7dab02c;pathrevid=stewb%40linux-foundation.org-20090527132832-ut4f6nm8knk5pz69;path=modules/li18nux2k.l1/tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/grep-tp/grep-tp.sh
Comment 1 Paolo Bonzini 2010-03-31 10:08:12 UTC 
Standalone testcase, not requiring even grep:

echo 'ａｂＣＤ' | LC_ALL=LTP_1.UTF-8 sed -ne 's/ＡｂｃＤ//ip' 

It works with LC_ALL set to something saner, so this happens because the locale is invalid.  I don't know if there is a need for some special set up, but I'm inclined to close this bug as invalid.
Comment 2 Stew Benedict 2010-03-31 10:38:27 UTC 
Yes, the test suite installs and sets up the test locale. I'm pretty sure the problem resides in the RH grep build. Several other distributions also had this issue after a somewhat recent grep uplift (6 months ago when the bug was opened), and corrected it by reworking or dropping patches. It consistently fails in my testing every week on rawhide, and not on any other distribution.

Test package:

http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/snapshots/runtime-test/lsb-test-core-4.0.102-1.i486.rpm
Comment 3 Paolo Bonzini 2010-03-31 10:46:13 UTC 
Please try the latest grep-2.6.x packages from koji.
Comment 4 Stew Benedict 2010-04-01 10:18:19 UTC 
Test does seem to be passing with grep-2.6.1-1.fc14
Comment 5 Stew Benedict 2010-04-26 13:54:09 UTC 
Re-open against the RHEL6 beta This version has grep-2.5.3-6.1.el6.i686 and fails the test.
Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2010-04-26 15:14:49 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 8 Jaroslav Škarvada 2010-04-26 15:19:48 UTC 
Fixed in grep-2.6.3-1.el6 that is heading RHEL-6.
Comment 11 Stew Benedict 2010-09-02 11:40:27 UTC 
Appears to be corrected in RHEL6-beta2
Comment 13 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 20:35:10 UTC 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.
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