Re: [bug #59461] smoke-test_html_device.sh: make the test more independent of locale

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 08:54:27PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote in
>  <20201113-180249.sv93188.62001@savannah.gnu.org>:
>  |URL:
>  |  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59461>
>  ...
>  |locale -a | grep -F -q UTF-8 || exit 77 # skip
> 
> That will not do, at least not portably and if you care for older
> systems.  At minimum you must test utf8 and utf-8 here.  Better to
> conditionalize on "command -v locale" first, it may be missing as
> such (but forgot the details, i however do it like that).
> Maybe something like "grep -i -q 'utf-\{0,1\}8$'" or so.
> 

  Yes, I just changed the orignal test but kept the UTF-8,
so both versions will then fail.

  This test of mine is unnecessary,
and my next test version will drop it.

N.B.  The groff versions before 1.20 (year 2009) did not have the option
'-k'.

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Bjarni I. Gislason