[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#221290: Bug may be UTF-8 clean/not clean problem

[Christian Perrier]

I did some testing about this bug report.

Indeed, as long as the terminal where login is used (or the console)
is not a UTF-8 terminal, login works and displays as expected.

However, in a UTF-8 environment (for instance gnome-terminal with
UTF-8 environment), the line-editing in login prompt does not work
properly=A0: entering "f=FCr" then hitting Backspace three times seems to
erase the prompt.....but entering a valid login later then fails. The
only way to properly clean the login prompt is by hitting Ctrl-U.

So, I mor eor less suspect that some code in login's prompt editing is
not UTF-8 clean.

May one of our code wizards have a look at this?

Tomasz, has this been dealt with upstream?

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