Comment 3 for bug 1952491

Dear Christian,

Thanks for the return. Indeed this is an upstream bug. I have tried to file
with them, but it has
ot been easy. I'll keep you posted if things change.

Paulo Ney

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:50 AM Christian Ehrhardt  <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hi,
> I can confirm your report and have tested it in Focal (1:4.15.2-5) and
> Jammy (1:4.15.2-5build1) which both behave that way.
>
> I want to thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping
> to make Ubuntu better. I appreciate the quality of this bug report and
> I'm sure it'll be helpful to others experiencing the same issue.
>
> But this sounds like an upstream bug to me. Even the latest behaves that
> way and I didn#t see Ubuntu/Debian delta that seems related.
>
> You might consider verifying this by building directly from the latest
> upstream source? If this can be confirmed as an upstream bug, the best
> route to getting it fixed in Ubuntu in this case would be to file an
> upstream bug if you're able to do that.
> Seems the project wants mails (
> https://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/manual/sharutils.html#shar-Bugs)
> so the result are likely mailing list entries.
>
> Otherwise, I'm not sure what we can do directly in Ubuntu to fix the
> problem.
>
> If you do end up filing an upstream bug, please link to it from here.
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> BTW - and by that I'm not 100% sure how valid the bug is - if I omit the
> -T (forcing text) everything works just fine.
>
> ** Changed in: sharutils (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: sharutils (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1952491
>
> Title:
> shar fails on some UTF-8 text files
>
> Status in sharutils package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When I do "shar -T test.tex > file.shar" on the one-liner file,
> encoded in UTF-8:
>
> \chapter{Séries}
>
> everything works fine, and when executing sh file.shar the file is
> extracted fine and it is the same as before.
>
> Adding one line to it and turning the file into:
>
> \chapter{Séries}
> Séries de potências são essenciais no estudo das funções.
>
> the same command produces a shar file that contains the text. But when
> we execute sh (or unshar, or change it into an executable file and
> execute it) it fails the MD5 check upon extraction:
>
> $ sh file.shar
> x - created lock directory _sh06764.
> x - extracting test.tex (text)
> test.tex: MD5 check failed
> x - removed lock directory _sh06764.
> and it produces a file that is recognized as ISO-8859 text and it has
> all accents messed up, as in:
>
> \chapter{Séries}
> S©ries de potências são essenciais no estudo das funções.
>
> I know the manual says that you may have problems e-mailing files
> produced with the -T flag, but this goes beyond mailing -- the file
> itself is corrupted.
>
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