Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/basename Makefile basename.c

[joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:16:57AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :corecode    2005/09/27 15:35:51 PDT
> :
> :DragonFly src repository
> :
> :  Modified files:
> :    usr.bin/basename     Makefile basename.c 
> :  Log:
> :  Fix breakage introduced:  When bootstrapping from -RELEASE we don't
> :  have widechar support available.
>   
>       I don't quite understand why we are even trying to support wchar
>       in basename, but it does look a lot better now :-)

If you use a statefull multibyte encoding, you have to ensure that
the split doesn't create broken character sequences by checking that
the split point is after a multibyte sequence. This doesn't happen
with UTF-8, but can happen with other encodings.

Joerg