printf: %ls or %S does not work when string is of length 1.
Jason Tishler
jason@tishler.net
Thu Aug 28 18:36:00 GMT 2008
Corinna,
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:13:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 28 08:41, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Thanks for the testcase. This looks like a bug in the newlib
> > > function _wcsrtombs_r. I'll send a bug report and a proposed fix
> > > upstream. This will be fixed in Cygwin 1.7.
> >
> > If you are going to release another Cygwin 1.5, would you be willing
> > to back port this fix? Otherwise, Python 3.0 will not be able to
> > run under Cygwin 1.5.
>
> Actually I didn't plan to release another 1.5. There will always be
> some bug which could be fixed, but at some point before a new major
> release you simply have to draw a line. What about just adding a
> Cygwin specific workaround in the 1.5 based Python 3.0 release?
This is one option -- possibly a difficult one. Another option is to
only support Python 3.0 under Cygwin 1.7 and later.
Jason
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