severity 254557 important tags 254557 patch thanks [raising severity as Unicode support is, well, important :)]
Attached is a patch that turns on perl's utf-8 layer in STDIN, STDOUT
and @ARGV *iff* the locale is utf-8 enabled.
The ${^UTF8LOCALE} is available since perl 5.8.7 (etch has 5.8.8)
Thanks for considering.
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commit 4dc1d3f27e7f779c701d101e4b6d25472c98ae07
Author: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Aug 14 12:43:52 2008 +0300
utf8 support in input, output and arguments on utf8-enabled locales
Closes: #254557 -- doesn't properly support UTF-8
diff --git a/cowsay b/cowsay
index 944d748..391efbf 100755
--- a/cowsay
+++ b/cowsay
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ use File::Basename;
use Getopt::Std;
use Cwd;
+if (${^UTF8LOCALE}) {
+ binmode STDIN, ':utf8';
+ binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
+ require Encode;
+ eval { $_ = Encode::decode_utf8($_,1) } for @ARGV;
+}
+
$version = "3.03";
$progname = basename($0);
$eyes = "oo";
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5cafeaa..16fd983 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+cowsay (3.03-9.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * turn utf8 support for input, output and arguments in utf8-enabled locales.
+ Closes: #254557 -- doesn't properly support UTF-8
+
+ -- Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:14:54 +0300
+
cowsay (3.03-9.2) unstable; urgency=low
* NMU to fix breakages introduced with last NMU.
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