Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:45:09 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 203040] Nvi truncates files with non-ASCII characters Message-ID: <bug-203040-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203040 Bug ID: 203040 Summary: Nvi truncates files with non-ASCII characters Product: Base System Version: 10.2-STABLE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: bjornr@iceland2000.com Created attachment 160929 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=160929&action=edit ISO-8859 file containing ;ð;; string, which Nvi will not load Nvi 2.1.2 (from FreeBSD 10.0 to FreeBSD 10.2) displays this behaviour in our system, when a certain character composition appears in a file - the file will be truncated from that line, with a false EOF placed in the line, making the file unusable. A file with non-ASCII characters (like eth) can be created to verify the problem: ;ð;; (the file should be ISO8859, the login.conf has lang, charset and lc_all set to iso-8859-1, added to default: :charset=ISO8859-1:\ :lang=is_IS.ISO8859-1:\ :lc_all=is_IS.ISO8859-1: \ The client terminal is set to ISO or Western-1252). A file, which contains only ;ð; will not be truncated. After saving and re-opening the file, the fileencoding will be set to utf-8, by Nvi. vi will display file with multiple lines like after re-opening: line 1 line 2 line 3 ~ line 5 line 4 was ;ð;; when the file was created, and after re-opening the file content after ~ is unusable. Other strings like ð ; will also break. Not all non-ASCII characters will do this, ý will be ok, but á will not... (y acute, a acute) Replacing vi with Nvi 1.79 from FreeBSD 9 does alleviate the problem. By unsetting login.conf to defaults, a file can be created, saved and re-opened, but it will not display the characters correctly, it will look like: ;\xf0;; instead of ;ð;; Setting LANG will again break Nvi with the message: Conversion error on line 1; FILE: unmodified: line 1 I've described the problem to Sven Verdoolaege also. Currently being very careful, or installing Nvi 1.79 from FreeBSD 9.3 source tree. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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