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Bug #18955

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Kernel#sprintf - %c ignores a non-ASCII character's encoding

Added by andrykonchin (Andrew Konchin) over 1 year ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

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Closed
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:109428]

Description

I haven't found any similar existing issue so decided to create a new one.

I noticed that sprintf("%c", string) doesn't handle (in an expected way) a case when encodings of format sequence and string argument aren't the same and the string argument contains non-ASCII character.

In this case it seems to me that sprintf just uses binary representation of a character and assigns (or interprets with) encoding of the format sequence string.

I would expect that sprintf negotiates encoding and converts everything (the character and the format string) to the chosen one. And raises error when negotiation fails.

Examples to illustrate this behavior:

format = "%c".encode("Windows-1251")
string = "Й".encode(Encoding::KOI8_U)
r = sprintf(format, string)
r.encoding
# => #<Encoding:Windows-1251>

r == "Й".encode("Windows-1251")
# => false

r.codepoints
# => [234]
string.codepoints
# => [234]

In this example the result's encoding is a format's encoding. But codepoint isn't changed and equals a codepoint of the character in the original string's encoding. But it should be different:

"Й".encode("Windows-1251").codepoints
# => [201]

Another example:

string = "À".encode(Encoding::CP1252)
sprintf("%c", string)
# => in `sprintf': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)

In this example the error means that sprintf doesn't encode properly a codepoint (of string's encoding) in UTF-8. It uses just raw bytes.

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