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[PATCH] t0028: fix wrong octal values for BOM in setup

From
Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date
Feb 11, 2019, 21:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20190211213818.4941-1-me@ikke.info>

The setup code uses octal values with printf to generate a BOM for UTF-16/32 BE/LE. It specifically uses '\777' to emit a 0xff byte. This relies on the fact that most shells truncate the value above 0o377.

Ash however interprets '\777' as '\77' + a literal '7', resulting in an invalid BOM.

Fix this by using the proper value of 0xff: '\377'.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
---
I do wonder why this code is using octal values in the first place,
rather than using hex values.
 t/t0028-working-tree-encoding.sh | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t0028-working-tree-encoding.sh b/t/t0028-working-tree-encoding.sh
index 8936ba6757..c6b68c22ca 100755
--- a/t/t0028-working-tree-encoding.sh
+++ b/t/t0028-working-tree-encoding.sh
@@ -49,12 +49,12 @@ test_expect_success 'setup test files' '
 	# BOM tests
 	printf "\0a\0b\0c"                         >nobom.utf16be.raw &&
 	printf "a\0b\0c\0"                         >nobom.utf16le.raw &&
-	printf "\376\777\0a\0b\0c"                 >bebom.utf16be.raw &&
-	printf "\777\376a\0b\0c\0"                 >lebom.utf16le.raw &&
+	printf "\376\377\0a\0b\0c"                 >bebom.utf16be.raw &&
+	printf "\377\376a\0b\0c\0"                 >lebom.utf16le.raw &&
 	printf "\0\0\0a\0\0\0b\0\0\0c"             >nobom.utf32be.raw &&
 	printf "a\0\0\0b\0\0\0c\0\0\0"             >nobom.utf32le.raw &&
-	printf "\0\0\376\777\0\0\0a\0\0\0b\0\0\0c" >bebom.utf32be.raw &&
-	printf "\777\376\0\0a\0\0\0b\0\0\0c\0\0\0" >lebom.utf32le.raw &&
+	printf "\0\0\376\377\0\0\0a\0\0\0b\0\0\0c" >bebom.utf32be.raw &&
+	printf "\377\376\0\0a\0\0\0b\0\0\0c\0\0\0" >lebom.utf32le.raw &&
 
 	# Add only UTF-16 file, we will add the UTF-32 file later
 	cp test.utf16.raw test.utf16 &&
-- 
2.19.1
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  1. t0028: fix wrong octal values for BOM in setupKevin Daudt, Feb 11, 2019
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