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authorJeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-01-06 01:59:08 +0000
committerJeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-01-06 01:59:08 +0000
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parent60e34b52810dd47567ca18aa2c86fe4cd7c9fd01 (diff)
Initial support of UTF-8. Thanks Alexander Patrakov.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7245 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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@@ -41,6 +41,26 @@ other packages later:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-suppress-patch;</userinput></screen>
+<para>POSIX requires that programs from Coreutils recognize character
+boundaries correctly even in multibyte locales. The following patch
+fixes this non-compliance and other internationalization-related bugs:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>In order for the tests added by this patch to pass, the permissions for
+the test file have to be changed:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>chmod +x tests/sort/sort-mb-tests</userinput></screen>
+
+<note><para>In the past, many bugs were found in this patch. When reporting
+new bugs to Coreutils maintainers, please check first if they are reproducible
+without this patch.</para></note>
+
+<para>It has been found that translated messages sometimes overflow a buffer
+in the <command>who -Hu</command> command. Increase the buffer size:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/_LEN 6/_LEN 20/' src/who.c</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>