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-rw-r--r--strings/ctype-simple.c23
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/strings/ctype-simple.c b/strings/ctype-simple.c
index d7a1b3f33b4..394924c8209 100644
--- a/strings/ctype-simple.c
+++ b/strings/ctype-simple.c
@@ -1303,7 +1303,28 @@ create_fromuni(struct charset_info_st *cs,
if (wc >= idx[i].uidx.from && wc <= idx[i].uidx.to && wc)
{
int ofs= wc - idx[i].uidx.from;
- tab[ofs]= ch;
+ if (!tab[ofs] || tab[ofs] > 0x7F) /* Prefer ASCII*/
+ {
+ /*
+ Some character sets can have double encoding. For example,
+ in ARMSCII8, the following characters are encoded twice:
+
+ Encoding#1 Encoding#2 Unicode Character Name
+ ---------- ---------- ------- --------------
+ 0x27 0xFF U+0027 APOSTROPHE
+ 0x28 0xA5 U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS
+ 0x29 0xA4 U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS
+ 0x2C 0xAB U+002C COMMA
+ 0x2D 0xAC U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
+ 0x2E 0xA9 U+002E FULL STOP
+
+ That is, both 0x27 and 0xFF convert to Unicode U+0027.
+ When converting back from Unicode to ARMSCII,
+ we prefer the ASCII range, that is we want U+0027
+ to convert to 0x27 rather than to 0xFF.
+ */
+ tab[ofs]= ch;
+ }
}
}
}