Re: [dict-beta] toupper utf8 character in index.c

[Sergei P. <po...@nb...>]

>>>>> "Kuang-che" == Kuang-che Wu <kc...@kc...> writes:

  Kuang-che> Hello,
  Kuang-che> I found one problem related with utf8 character and toupper().
  Kuang-che> When I use utf8 dictionary and running dictd in utf8 locale,
  Kuang-che> dictd crashed.

  Kuang-che> In index.c, line 1971,
  i->>> optStart[toupper(c(j))]
  Kuang-che>          = i->optStart[c(j)]
  Kuang-che>          = binary_search_8bit( buf, i, i->start, i->end );
  Kuang-che> when c(j)==0xb5,
  Kuang-che> it's "greek small letter mu" in unicode.

No, it's micro sign.

  Kuang-che> In my environment, toupper(c(j)) will return 0x39C,
  Kuang-che> "greek capital letter mu".

Hm, that seems to be a bug in your locale: I believe, the micro sign
(unlike the Greek letter mu) is not supposed to have an upper-case
form.

I did not check that in the standards, though.

  Kuang-che> then array out of boundary, crash.

  Kuang-che> I use FreeBSD 5.0 and locale zh_TW.UTF-8.

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Sergei