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Re: bash-4.3: casemod word expansions broken with UTF-8

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>>>>> On Sun, 15 Nov 2015, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Description:
> 	In an UTF-8 locale like en_US.UTF-8, the case-modifying
> 	parameter expansions sometimes return invalid UTF-8 encodings.

> 	This seems to happen when the UTF-8 byte sequences that are
> 	encoding upper and lower case have different lengths.

Even more interesting effects happen if the string contains a
character whose UTF-8 encoding gets *longer* after case conversion,
because then the terminating null byte will be overwritten.

For example, U+0250 "LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED A" is represented by a
two byte sequence in UTF-8, while its uppercase equivalent U+2C6F
needs three bytes:

	$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
	$ x=$'aaaaa\xc9\x90'
	$ y=${x^^}
	$ echo -n "$y" | od -t x1
	0000000 41 41 41 41 41 e2 90 af 6f 6d 65 2f 75 6c 6d
	0000017

y contains some trailing garbage (could be a part of $HOME or $PWD).

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Re: bash-4.3: casemod word expansions broken with UTF-8 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> - 2015-11-15 17:56 +0100

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