Re: Skip filename recoding tests on MS-Windows

[pertusus]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 05:34:56PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 05:47:54PM +0200, pertusus@free.fr wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> I thought we were going to skip these tests.

I also think so.  Actually they are already skipped.

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Pat