[localedef] illegal multibyte prefix '\x90' in character map file on CP1255

• Key: STDCXX-540
• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Sebor
• Component/s: Utilities
• Affects Version/s: 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.3.0

Description

The localedef utility has trouble processing the CP1255 character set description file:

$ (export RWSTD_SRC_ROOT=/nfs/devco/sebor/stdcxx/etc/nls; \
mkdir -p /tmp/$$ \
&& ./localedef -w -c -f $RWSTD_SRC_ROOT/charmaps/CP1255 -i $RWSTD_SRC_ROOT/src/yi_US /tmp/$$/yi_US.CP1255)
Error 308: illegal multibyte prefix '\x90' in character map file

Comments

[Martin Sebor]

See STDCXX-373 where this came up.

[Martin Sebor]

Scheduled for 4.2.1.

[Farid Zaripov]

Deferring to 4.3 release.

[Farid Zaripov]

Can't reproduce on msvc | icc/Windows and gcc/linux...