locale: localdef input files are now encoded in UTF-8

Previously, they were assumed to be in ISO-8859-1, and that the output
charset overlapped with ISO-8859-1 for the characters actually used.
However, this did not work as intended on many architectures even for
an ISO-8859-1 output encoding because of the char signedness bug in
lr_getc.  Therefore, this commit switches to UTF-8 without making
provisions for backwards compatibility.

The following Elisp code can be used to convert locale definition files
to UTF-8:

(defun glibc/convert-localedef (from to)
  (interactive "r")
  (save-excursion
    (save-restriction
      (narrow-to-region from to)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (save-match-data
	(while (re-search-forward "<U\\([0-9a-fA-F]+\\)>" nil t)
	  (let* ((codepoint (string-to-number (match-string 1) 16))
		 (converted
		  (cond
		   ((memq codepoint '(?/ ?\ ?< ?>))
		    (string ?/ codepoint))
		   ((= codepoint ?\") "<U0022>")
		   (t (string codepoint)))))
	    (replace-match converted t)))))))

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b0a3d7e512..163bcfad2e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Major new features:
   to more flexibly configure and operate on filesystem mounts.  The new
   mount APIs are specifically designed to work with namespaces.
 
+* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
+  Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
+  unpredictable output.
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes