[Bug libc/20687] Non-conformant error description in errlist.c

[carlos at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20687

Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |WAITING
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2016-10-12
                 CC|                            |carlos at redhat dot com
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #1 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Igor Liferenko from comment #0)
> The standard[1] says:
> 
>     EILSEQ          Illegal byte sequence
> 
> but glibc-2.24/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c has this:
> 
>     [ERR_REMAP (EILSEQ)] = N_("Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide
> character")
> 
> glibc tries to conform to the standard[2], so this should be fixed.

Where does it say in the standard that the text needs to be exactly as it is in
the standard? Not to mention that strerror_l can be used to return localization
specific error messages which will never be the exact American English text
written into the standard.

Without any further justification I'd say this is RESOLVED/INVALID.

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