Re: texinfo-6.0.92 make check has 12 FAILs on Solaris10 x86/x64

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:21:07 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Kiyoshi KANAZAWA <address@hidden>, Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> > Bother: what will that do on non-Posix systems, where the 'locale'
> > command is not necessarily available, and even if it is, its output is
> > generally irrelevant.  E.g., I have a locale.exe on my system that
> > came with the Windows port of Git -- it displays the locales which Git
> > can handle, but any other native Windows program will not, and in
> > particular native Windows programs cannot use UTF-8 as the locale's
> > codeset anyway.  I know that some users put the Git's bin directory on
> > PATH, so for them invoking 'locale -a' will "succeed", and makeinfo
> > will attempt to use the UTF-8 locale.
> 
> As long as the output of "locale -a" has either "UTF-8" or "utf8" in
> it, it should work fine: the actual name of the locale that is output
> won't be used as long as w32_setlocale works.

I hope you are right.