Bug 136355

Summary:	ruby-1.8.4-r1 - REXML module corrupts UTF-8 data
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Eli Venter <eli_venter>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Ruby Team <ruby>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Eli Venter 2006-06-10 20:53:15 UTC

As mentioned at the following link:

https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/booh-discuss/2006-February/000146.html

Using the REXML module with UTF-8 chars can corrupt data. Running the simple test file from the above link shows the current stable ruby has this bug.

$ epm -q ruby
ruby-1.8.4-r1
$ ruby t.rb
andr

Comment 1 Eli Venter 2006-06-10 20:53:15 UTC

As mentioned at the following link:

https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/booh-discuss/2006-February/000146.html

Using the REXML module with UTF-8 chars can corrupt data. Running the simple test file from the above link shows the current stable ruby has this bug.

$ epm -q ruby
ruby-1.8.4-r1
$ ruby t.rb
andré is nice
andré is nice
andr&#233; is nice

Solution used to be use ruby 1.8.2 but that was just removed from portage.

Comment 2 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-13 05:38:46 UTC

Is this fixed in a more recent version than 1.8.4-r3 ?

There have been security vulnerabilities issues for < 1.8.3, so we can't easily revert.

Comment 3 Eli Venter 2006-06-13 07:00:18 UTC

Hadn't tried it until now. It does appear to be fixed in ruby-1.8.4.20060529