dosfslabel improperly handles localized input

[Marc D.]

Binary package hint: dosfstools

dosfslabel improperly handles localized input. In a UTF-8 locale, the following command fails with an improper error message:

kosh@galileo:~$ dosfslabel /dev/sdc1 äääääääää
dosfslabel: labels can be no longer than 11 characters

I entered only nine characters, so the error message is misleading. Obviously, dosfslabel just uses the 18 octets of the UTF-8 representation of äääääääää, which is incorrect in most cases (when a non 8bit locale is being used).

Please fix this on a layer of your choice.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 28 02:33:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: dosfstools 3.0.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
SourcePackage: dosfstools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

[Marc D. (koshy)]

The problem still exists in
Version: 3.0.12-1ubuntu1 (precise)

[Marc D. (koshy)]

The problem still exists in
Version: 4.1-1 (bionic)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pali (pali)]

Issue is now fixed in dosfstools 4.2