RHEA-2021:0170 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for tcsh Shift_JIS is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The tcsh packages provide an enhanced and widely compatible version of the C shell (csh). The tcsh command-language interpreter can be used as an interactive login shell, as well as a shell script command processor. Shift JIS (SJIS) is a character encoding for the Japanese language. The tcsh Shift_JIS packages provide tcsh support for SJIS.

This update adds the following enhancements:

• Previously, tcsh incorrectly showed the prompt characters with the backslash sign ("\") when Shift JIS was set as the current locale. Due to this problem, tcsh shell failed to parse the prompt characters. With this update, tcsh shows the prompt characters correctly.
• Prior to this update, SJIS-formatted characters displayed incorrectly in tcsh after a value was substituted using a command-line argument. Now, the characters display correctly in the described circumstances.

(BZ#1894448)

Users who require SJIS encoding support with tcsh functions 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) 7 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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