[Bug 66238] Re: rev doesn't expect input in current locale's charset

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

(Subscribing Joseph Salisbury)

The problem still exists with the 3.1.0-rc8 as hand built from the
upstream kernel git.

Joseph:
As I have tested your request can I make a request in turn? Could you contact the upstream developers and report back what they think of this bug (perhaps its not a bug)? Thanks.

** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing

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Title:
  rev doesn't expect input in current locale's charset

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Description of the problem:
  rev doesn't seem to listen to the current locale when reading in text files and always seems to expect utf8.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1.  Save off the iso8859-15.txt attachment.
  2.  Run
  LANG="en_GB" rev iso8859-15.txt | iconv -fiso8859-15 -tutf8

  Expected result:
  £é
  to be printed.

  Actual result:
  rev: iso8859-15.txt: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

  Additional Information:
  SUSE 10.1 and Fedora Core 5 both produce the expected output.

  Version information:
  Edgy
  util-linux 2.12r-11ubuntu1

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