[debbugs-tracker] bug#24973: closed ([regression] [d-f] no longer includes e with acute accent in single-byte locales)

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acute accent in single-byte locales
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regarding [regression] [d-f] no longer includes e with acute accent in 
single-byte locales
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> [regression] [d-f] no longer includes e with acute accent in single-byte locales
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> Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:14:31 +0000
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> Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
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> Hello,
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> In grep 2.26,
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> echo é | grep '[d-f]'
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> no longer matches in locales like address@hidden or
> en_GB.iso88591 where the character set is single-byte like
> ISO-8859-1. It still works OK with UTF-8.
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> 2.25 was OK. git bisect points to commit
> 2769d5331a38d623b67b1860ac46b39ff7e54aca
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> Reproduce with:
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> printf '\351\n' | LC_ALL=en_US.iso88591 ./src/grep '[d-f]' || echo fail
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> (assuming that locale is available on the system).
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> Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 amd64.
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> Stephane
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#24973: [regression] [d-f] no longer includes e with acute accent in single-byte locales Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 20:34:35 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0

Stephane Chazelas wrote:

2.25 was OK. git bisect points to commit
2769d5331a38d623b67b1860ac46b39ff7e54aca

Thanks for pinpointing the bug. It was my logic error in that commit. Fixed by altering Gnulib as follows:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-11/msg00086.html

and by installing the attached patches into grep.

0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch
Description: Text Data

0002-tests-check-for-unibyte-French-range-bug.patch
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