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df header corrupted with LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 on macOS

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan12125 <at> gmail.com>, 32236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#32236: df header corrupted with LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 on macOS
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:30:25 -0700

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On 21/07/18 07:20, Chih-Hsuan Yen wrote:
> Hi coreutils developers,
> 
> I'm using coreutils on macOS High Sierra (10.13). I noticed that with
> `LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8`, `df` output is corrupted.
> 
> �?�?系統 容�?? 已�?� �?��?� 已�?�% �??�?�?
> /dev/disk1s1    234G  151G    81G    65% /
> /dev/disk1s4    234G  2.1G    81G     3% /private/var/vm
> 
> (I'm not sure if other mail agents can display those characters
> correctly or not. See my blog post [1] for the exact output.)
> 
> Seems it's similar to bug#25630 [2], which is not resolved. I guess
> the reason of my issue is that iscntrl() is broken on macOS High
> Sierra, so in hide_problematic_chars(), some bytes in the Chinese
> header is replaced with a question mark. I managed to patch coreutils
> [3] to make `df` work. Could you have a look? Thanks!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Chih-Hsuan Yen
> 
> [1] https://blog.chyen.cc/posts/2018/06/23/mac-df-chinese.html
> [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2017-02/msg00008.html
> [3] https://github.com/yan12125/macports-ports/blob/fix-coreutils-df-chinese/sysutils/coreutils/files/patch-df.diff

Wow. That's surprising. I do see the FreeBSD man pages say:

"The 4.4BSD extension of accepting arguments outside of the range of the unsigned char type
in locales with large character sets is considered obsolete and may not be supported in
future releases."

Now I think that might have been referring to >= 0xFF, but fair enough.

I've attached a gnulib patch to document for iscntrl at least.
It would be great if someone could test the other is*() classification
functions on macOS so that I might have a more complete documentation patch.

I've also attached an alternative patch for df (in your name).
Can you try that one?

thanks!
Pádraig

[df-utf8-osx.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[osx-iscntrl-doc.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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