From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:40:23 GMT
Subject: Re: bug report: symbolic-ref --short command echos the wrong text while use Chinese language
Message-ID: <xmqqk00k6w08.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Y+uwW0I0k7urZ3do@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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-<.