Re: m4-1.4.17 test-mbrtowc3.sh fails on Solaris without European localization

[Daiki Ueno]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> [adding gnulib]
>
> On 11/06/2014 11:19 AM, Kiyoshi KANAZAWA wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> On Solaris 10 x86/x64,
>> "test-mbrtowc3.sh" fails if European localization is not installed.
>> It passes with European localization.

I can reproduce it, and it seems to be the same issue as:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2014-10/msg00000.html
which I originally encountered on Solaris 11.
(It's curious that you could work it around by installing European
localization, while the test checks the mbrtowc behavior under Japanese
locale.)

Perhaps it would be good to replace mbrtowc on Solaris, though I have no
idea how to detect the wrong behavior without depending on particular
locale data.  Alternatively, we could simply ignore this test failure on
Solaris, since the tested calling convention is not very common.

Thoughts?

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno