date doesn't allow format strings that are not UTF-8
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Description
GNU:
$ LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 date +$(LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 printf '\xC2') | iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8
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uutils:
$ LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 ./target/debug/date +$(LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 printf '\xC2') | iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8
error: invalid UTF-8 was detected in one or more arguments
For more information, try '--help'.
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Reproduce the issue with the provided GNU and uutils date commands under ISO-8859-1, then inspect the date command's argument handling and UTF-8 validation. Done means a non-UTF-8 format string is accepted and produces behavior matching GNU's output in the example.
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- rust
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- Bug
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