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…or locale

Under a locale whose decimal separator is multi-byte (e.g. ar_SA.UTF-8, where it is the Arabic '٫', U+066B, 2 bytes), an input like '1٫€K' aborted with a char-boundary panic in find_valid_number_with_suffix.

The numeric part was iterated with s.chars().skip(numeric_part.len()) — using the byte length as a character count — which skipped past the multi-byte separator incorrectly, and the result was then sliced with &s[..=numeric_part.len()], landing inside a multi-byte suffix character.

Iterate the remainder from the numeric part's byte offset (a valid char boundary, since it is a prefix of the input) and slice using each suffix character's actual UTF-8 length. Malformed input is now rejected as GNU does ('invalid suffix in input'), and valid multi-byte-separator input such as '1٫5K' still parses.

Adds a regression test (verified failing before the fix). Closes #13937.

Closes #13937.

Under a locale whose decimal separator is multi-byte (e.g. ar_SA.UTF-8, where it's the Arabic ٫, U+066B, 2 bytes), an input like 1٫€K aborted with a char-boundary panic:

$ LC_ALL=ar_SA.UTF-8 numfmt --from=si '1٫€K'
thread 'main' panicked at src/uu/numfmt/src/format.rs:70:20:
byte index 4 is not a char boundary; it is inside '€' (bytes 3..6) of 1٫€K

Root cause: the numeric part was iterated with s.chars().skip(numeric_part.len()) — using its byte length as a character count — so a multi-byte separator was mis-skipped, and the result was then sliced with &s[..=numeric_part.len()], landing inside a multi-byte suffix char.

Fix: iterate the remainder from the numeric part's byte offset (a valid char boundary) and slice using each suffix char's actual len_utf8(). Malformed input is now rejected like GNU (invalid suffix in input), and valid multi-byte-separator input like 1٫5K still parses.

Adds a regression test (verified failing before the fix). cargo fmt, cargo clippy, and the full numfmt test suite pass.

…or locale

Under a locale whose decimal separator is multi-byte (e.g. ar_SA.UTF-8,
where it is the Arabic '٫', U+066B, 2 bytes), an input like '1٫€K'
aborted with a char-boundary panic in find_valid_number_with_suffix.

The numeric part was iterated with s.chars().skip(numeric_part.len()) —
using the *byte* length as a *character* count — which skipped past the
multi-byte separator incorrectly, and the result was then sliced with
&s[..=numeric_part.len()], landing inside a multi-byte suffix character.

Iterate the remainder from the numeric part's byte offset (a valid char
boundary, since it is a prefix of the input) and slice using each suffix
character's actual UTF-8 length. Malformed input is now rejected as GNU
does ('invalid suffix in input'), and valid multi-byte-separator input
such as '1٫5K' still parses.

Adds a regression test (verified failing before the fix). Closes uutils#13937.

Signed-off-by: Nagendra Mohan <nagendramohan1990@gmail.com>
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oech3 commented Aug 21, 2026

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Duplicated PR. Please close this.

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GNU testsuite comparison:

Note: The gnu test tests/printf/printf-surprise is now being skipped but was previously passing.
Note: The gnu test tests/tail/tail-n0f is now being skipped but was previously passing.

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Merging this PR will degrade performance by 3.84%

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@oech3 please mention which PR it is duplicated from (here #13938)

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numfmt panics (str char-boundary) on a number using a multibyte locale decimal separator before a multibyte char and a suffix

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