Re: Unicode failure with 'make check'

[Douglas Lewan]

On 12/11/20 3:42 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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
>
> 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

Ah, I understand. Debian seems to want to do "favors" for me, most of 
them unwanted. It makes sense that they'd do you a "favor" too.

Thanks for letting me know.

> 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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