RHEA-2017:2559 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated coreutils Shift_JIS packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages. Shift JIS (SJIS) is a character encoding for the Japanese language. The coreutils Shift_JIS packages provide coreutils support for SJIS.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• Previously, the NULL character in some cases was not replaced with the "tr" command provided by the coreutils packages. With this update, "tr" is able to display such character properly. (BZ#1483352)

Users who require SJIS encoding support with coreutils are advised to upgrade to
these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 6 x86_64
• Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 6 i386

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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