Re: Broken interactive rebase text after some UTF-8 characters

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net>]

Hi Alban

On 31/01/2019 17:43, Alban Gruin wrote:
> Hi Phillip and Michal,
> 
> I think I found the bug.

Good find! Which os are you on?
> 
> If you look at .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo.backup, which is
> created before the editor is opened, you can see that it does not have
> this problem.  In between, transform_todos() is called and causes the
> problem reported by Michal.
> 
> This seems to be caused by a single line, sequencer:4661 (on b5101f9297,
> "Fourth batch after 2.20", 2019-01-29)[1].  If you add just before a
> something like this:
> 
>      fwrite(item->arg, item->arg_len, sizeof(char), stdout);
> 
> You will see that the argument is properly written to stdout.  But if
> you write this:
> 
>      printf("%.*s\n", item->arg_len, item->arg);
> 
> You will have the same broken output as in the todo file.
> 
> Are we misusing C formats?

The C standard and POSIX both say that the * refers to the maximum 
number of bytes to print but it looks like it is being treated as the 
maximum number of characters on OpenIndiana.

Johannes - Perhaps we should change it to use fwrite() unless printf() 
gets fixed and we're sure no other operating systems are affected?

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fprintf.html
[2] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf page 309

Best Wishes

Phillip

> [1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/sequencer.c#L4661
> 
> Cheers,
> Alban
> 
>