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multiple character encodings in grsec patch

PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:44 pm
by IooNag
Hello, the grsecurity test patch currently contains two lines with non-ASCII symbols:

  • The first line of grsecurity/Makefile contains character en dash (U+2013) encoded in UTF-8:
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    # grsecurity \xe2\x80\x93 access control and security hardening for Linux
  • The third line of net/netfilter/xt_gradm.c contains character copyright sign (U+A9) encoded in ISO-8859:
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     *\tCopyright \xa9 Zbigniew Krzystolik, 2010

This makes some programs have some trouble reading the patch: vim displays "รข<80><93>" instead of the en dash, gedit warns about a character encoding-related problem when opening the patch file, meld automatically uses UTF-16 which results in weird characters, etc. Could you please fix the encoding of grsecurity patch in a later version? For example with:
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sed 's/ \xa9/ \xc2\xa9/' -i net/netfilter/xt_gradm.c

Re: multiple character encodings in grsec patch

PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:49 pm
by spender
Thanks, this was fixed yesterday.

-Brad