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

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On 11/15/15, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> 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.
>
> Repeat-By:
> 	$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> 	$ x=$'\xc4\xb1' # LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I
> 	$ echo -n "${x^}" | od -t x1
> 	0000000 49 b1
> 	0000002
>
> 	This should have output "49" for "I" only. The "b1" is illegal
> 	as the first byte of an UTF-8 sequence.
>
> 	$ x=$'\xe1\xba\x9e' # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S
> 	$ echo -n "${x,}" | od -t x1
> 	0000000 c3 9f 9e
> 	0000003
>
> 	This should have output "c3 9f" (for "sharp s") only.
>

Both examples should work as expected in 4.4-beta.


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