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Test locales (was: Re: Encoding customization variable names)


From: Jacob Bachmeyer
Subject: Test locales (was: Re: Encoding customization variable names)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 17:35:18 -0500
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Gavin Smith wrote:
Another issue (I can't remember if I emailed you before about this) is
the locale settings to run the test suites. You changed it from "C" to
"C.UTF-8", but the latter encoding doesn't exist everywhere. I changed
it to "en_US.UTF-8" (see ChangeLog entries on 2022-04-14) but this
won't exist everywhere either. Perhaps we should find some way of
keeping the test suite under the "C" locale, perhaps disabling or
conditionalizing tests that require a UTF-8 locale.

I seem to recall that locale is selected using environment variables and POSIX only requires and specifies the "C" locale. Surely the test harness could set up the environment such that tests not related to locale handling are always run under the "C" locale (and not UTF-8 either -- those tests should be ASCII-only since POSIX only requires ASCII to be supported)? Either the configure script or the test harness itself could search for an acceptable UTF-8 locale and skip the tests that use UTF-8 if one is not found on the system.


-- Jacob



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