Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:20:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports/7490: `setenv LANG/LC_CTYPE C` makes tcsh unusable Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9808041519060.2799-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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>Number: 7490 >Category: ports >Synopsis: `setenv LANG/LC_CTYPE C` makes tcsh unusable >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 4 06:30:00 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gerald Pfeifer >Organization: Vienna University of Technology >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-19980725-SNAP i386 >Environment: FreeBSD adhara.dbai.tuwien.ac.at 3.0-19980725-SNAP FreeBSD 3.0-19980725-SNAP #0: Sat Jul 25 10:27:08 GMT 1998 root@make.ican.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 /usr/local/bin/tcsh version tcsh 6.07.02 (Astron) 1996-10-27 (i386-intel-FreeBSD) options 8b,nls,dl,al,rh The same problem also exists in 2.2.6 and 3.0-980621-SNAP. >Description: If either one of `setenv LANG C` or `setenv LC_CTYPE` occurs in .cshrc, very strange error message are printed during login and processing of .cshrc breaks at arbitrary points of .cshrc. Similarily, using either of these commands in any script invoked as `tcsh script` will produce the same result. >How-To-Repeat: ~% cat in1 setenv LC_CTYPE C ~% tcsh in1 ^A^F\314ALA\312@\202^HERROR:: Too many arguments. ~% cat in2 setenv LANG C ~% tcsh in2 ^A^F\314ALA\312@\202^HERROR:: Too many arguments. >Fix: None known. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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