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Re: [PATCH] cvsserver: Avoid miscounting bytes in Perl v5.8.x

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Dec 7, 2006, 05:48 UTC
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Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> writes:
> At some point between v5.6 and 5.8 Perl started to assume its input,
> output and filehandles are UTF-8. This breaks the counting of bytes
> for the CVS protocol, resulting in the client expecting less data
> than we actually send, and storing truncated files.
Thanks.  Will queue for both maint and master.
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