On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Alexey Borzenkov <sna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in a domain at work and previously used mkpasswd -d and mkgroup -d
> to populate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Unfortunately, we mostly
> use Russian versions of Windows (especially on servers) here and most
> built-in user and group names (like Administrator, Domain Users, etc.)
> are localized. With cygwin 1.5 these names were successfully exported
> by mkpasswd/mkgroup, however with cygwin 1.7 all such usernames are
> silently ignored and don't appear in the output.
And I found why. It appears that there's a bug in printf with %ls that
will refuse to print the string completely if the wide string for %ls
cannot be represented in current charset. It's interesting that
sometimes it behaves differently. For example:
$ mkpasswd -C
NDGAMES\aborzenkov:unused:11721:10513:U-NDGAMES\aborzenkov,*sidremoved*:/home/aborzenkov:/bin/bash
$ mkgroup -C
NDGAMES\
Notice that in the second case it somehow managed to print domain name
and separator before failing.
Another example:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.CP1252");
printf("'%ls'", L"\u0410\u0411\u0412");
return 0;
}
Prints nothing, i.e. it doesn't print neither of single quotes. If it
couldn't represent those characters, I think it should either ignore
them, or try to display them with SO-UTF-8. Making printf call fail
like that is, imho, really unexpected.
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