Re: bug report: symbolic-ref --short command echos the wrong text while use Chinese language

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2023, 16:40 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk00k6w08.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Y+uwW0I0k7urZ3do@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Oof. So it is some weird locale thing that scanf is doing. I don't even
> want to think about what the details could be. ;)
>
> Since scanf is such a bad and error-prone interface in the first place
> (and I'd actually like to put it on the banned list), what about just
> parsing manually here?

Me likee.

This will eradicate the only use of sscanf() from the tree; unfortunately there is a topic that adds a new one or two back in flight X-<.

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