Re: Unicode failure with 'make check'

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/11/20 2:02 PM, Douglas Lewan wrote:
> This morning I downloaded bash-5.1-rc2. After I built it I ran 'make 
> check,. That produced (n

This is a longstanding problem with Debian. I've never been inclined to
look into it further. There is some issue with the French ISO8859-1
locale files that doesn't exist on other Linux distributions such as
Fedora.

> < fr_FR.ISO8859-1: Error Encoding U+00000080 to  [ "$'\200'" != 
> "$'\302\200'" ]
> ... (124 similar errors)
> < fr_FR.ISO8859-1: Error Encoding U+000000FD to  [ "$'\375'" != "ý" ]
> < Failed 126 of 1378 Unicode tests
> ---
>  > Passed all 1378 Unicode tests
>
> That seems wrong. If it failed 126 tests, then, at most, 1252 tests could 
> have succeeded.

But that's not what the message means. It's `diff' output. The `<' lines
are what the test produced as output on your Debian system. The `>' lines
are the expected output.

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