Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 12:48:04 -0500 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org> Subject: 10.0-BETA3, why it was added Message-ID: <20131103174804.GH1792@glenbarber.us>
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Just a quick update on why -BETA3 was added to the 10.0-RELEASE
schedule:
A problem was discovered in the base iconv(1), which introduces a major
regression with character encoding, specifically with malformed output.
Sample code to reproduce the issue:
% perl -e "print pack('C*', 0xa5,0xa2,0xa5,0xe1,0xa5,0xea,0xa5,0xab); \
print qq/\n/;" \
| iconv -f euc-jp -t utf-8 \
| iconv -f utf-8 -t euc-jp \
| hexdump -C
00000000 a2 a5 e1 a5 ea a5 ab a5 0a
00000009
While there are no compile-time issues in general, this makes the base
iconv(1) unusable with certain character sets. Solutions are being
evaluated.
For the immediate time, -BETA3 builds have started.
Glen
On behalf of: re@
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