From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:16:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Odd encoding issue with UTF-8 + gettext yields ? on non-ASCII
Message-ID: <20100828221655.GB5777@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008282213420.67930@x.fncre.vasb>

Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> What's wrong?

$ /lib/libc.so.6  |head -1
GNU C Library (Debian EGLIBC 2.11.2-2) stable release version 2.11.2, by Roland McGrath et al.
$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>

int main(void)
{
        int n;

        setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
        n = printf("%.11s\n", "Author: \277");
        perror("printf");
        fprintf(stderr, "return value: %d\n", n);
        return 0;
}
$ make test
cc     test.c   -o test
$ ./test
printf: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
return value: -1

glibc bug?