gnu/116363: isspace broken for UTF-8 locales

[Petr Hroudný]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/116363; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Petr_Hroudn=C3=BD?=" <petr.hroudny at gmail.com>
To: "Hye-Shik Chang" <perky at freebsd.org>
Cc: "Andrey Chernov" <ache at nagual.pp.ru>, freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, 
	jkoshy at freebsd.org, i18n at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gnu/116363: isspace broken for UTF-8 locales
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:35:52 +0200

 2007/9/16, Hye-Shik Chang <perky at freebsd.org>:
 
 > If you are saying about Python's str.split(), the problem is due
 > to our libc bug (or feature) which is described many times before,
 > and Python already includes a workaround for the problem.
 > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2004-August/042343.html
 
 I run into this problem when using mutt, which utilizes isspace to
 separate tokens in
 e.g. list of recipients. Then I've found the workaround for Python,
 saying this problem
 should be fixed in FreeBSD6 - but it's still present even in 7-current.
 I do believe it would be better to fix isspace() than introduce
 workarounds into every application.
 
 Regards, Petr