fedora release name problem

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Mar 21 00:01:35 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 23:35 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 12:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > 
> > Le Mar 19 mars 2013 11:38, Ian Malone a écrit :
> > 
> > > and holding up the release for what is basically a triviality seems a
> > > bit silly.
> > 
> > The perception correct UTF-8 handling is a triviality that should be
> > worked on at some later date is the reason we have this breakage now.
> 
> No. As I understand it, this bug would have happened if we were still in
> the 20th century and using the legacy 8-bit encodings too.
> 
> We have an 'is it text?' function which arbitrarily allows 2% of bytes
> to be >= 0x80. Which means that even in ISO8859-1, a file containing
> just the words "Schrödinger's Cat" wouldn't be considered to be text.

That was the bug in abrt. The bug in grub2 was that the single quote
closed quotes in the grub config file, which uses...single quotes...for
quoting.

Of course, that's not a unicode bug either.

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