Bug 74157 – strftime gets encoding very wrong under ru_RU.UTF-8

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Bug 74157 - strftime gets encoding very wrong under ru_RU.UTF-8

Summary:	strftime gets encoding very wrong under ru_RU.UTF-8

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	perl (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Chip Turner
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Reported:	2002-09-16 21:30 EDT by Aleksey Nogin
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:46 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-05-15 02:43:45 EDT
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Test perl script (139 bytes, patch) 2002-09-16 21:31 EDT, Aleksey Nogin	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2002-09-16 21:30:41 EDT

If I run

  use POSIX qw(locale_h strftime);
  setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
  print (strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", gmtime()), "\n");

under ru_RU.UTF-8, then the result is completely miscoded - the output is not in
any legal encoding.

The "encoding" of the output can be described as a result of applying a
iso-8859-1..utf-8 conversion to a legal UTF-8 encoding of a Cyrillic time
string. In other words, currently (perl-5.8.0-50, glibc-2.2.93-2)

env LC_ALL=ru_RU.UTF-8 /tmp/test.pl | recode utf-8..iso8859-1

produces a utf-8 encoding of a Cyrillic time string.

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2002-09-16 21:31:22 EDT

Created attachment 76324 [details]
Test perl script

Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2003-01-06 05:21:02 EST

Still exists in Phoebe.

Comment 3 Aleksey Nogin 2003-05-15 02:43:45 EDT

Works correctly in Cambridge alpha1 (perl-5.8.1-0.pre19333.1)

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