bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> That allows the files to be compiled, but some tests fail:
>>
>> Files examined: 305
>> Ran 4241 tests, 4197 results as expected, 5 unexpected, 39 skipped
>> 5 files contained unexpected results:
>>   src/emacs-module-tests.log
>>   src/callint-tests.log
>>   lisp/subr-tests.log
>>   lisp/net/tramp-archive-tests.log
>>   lisp/emacs-lisp/gv-tests.log
>
> Maybe these tests expect some special locale.  For example,
> emacs-module-tests could expect UTF-8, since we don't support
> non-UTF-8 strings in modules.

UTF8 is also required for tramp-archive-tests, IIRC (not checked actually).

> Anyway, I think if this is down to a couple of tests, we can install
> the changes, as the problems they uncover are elsewhere.

Agreed. If needed, I could adapt tramp-archive-tests. I cannot speak for
the other tests.

Best regards, Michael.