Subject: Re: bug report: symbolic-ref --short command echos the wrong text while use Chinese language

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:40:23 -0800

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> Oof. So it is some weird locale thing that scanf is doing. I don't even
> want to think about what the details could be. ;)
>
> Since scanf is such a bad and error-prone interface in the first place
> (and I'd actually like to put it on the banned list), what about just
> parsing manually here?

Me likee.

This will eradicate the only use of sscanf() from the tree;
unfortunately there is a topic that adds a new one or two back in
flight X-<.