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Re: Skip filename recoding tests on MS-Windows


From: pertusus
Subject: Re: Skip filename recoding tests on MS-Windows
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:47:54 +0200

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 03:14:26PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:03:53 +0200
> > From: pertusus@free.fr
> > Cc: GavinSmith0123@gmail.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> > 
> > Lets call LOC your locale.  The setup is a manual encoded in Latin1, and
> > an include file included_latîn1.texi.  On your computer, the î in the
> > include file is stored as 0x05DE, which is the conversion of 0xEE in the
> > LOC codepage.
> 
> For this to work, the non-ASCII character we use should be encodable
> both by Latin1 and by the Windows codepages.  This is a tough
> requirement, but if you look at the tables of these encodings, you
> will see that some codepoints between 0xA1 and 0xAF are identical
> between many Windows codepages and Latin1.  For example, 0xAB is
> identical in many codepages.  So maybe we could try such a character,
> for these tests?

I set the character to the Yen and Yuan sign which is in the range.

It is not fully clear to me how this changes what we do with the tests,
though...

-- 
Pat



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