On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 02:08:42PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 7:22 AM Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also do not hesitate to propose other names for those customization > > variables. > > Another issue (I can't remember if I emailed you before about this) is > the locale settings to run the test suites. You changed it from "C" to > "C.UTF-8", but the latter encoding doesn't exist everywhere. I changed > it to "en_US.UTF-8" (see ChangeLog entries on 2022-04-14) but this > won't exist everywhere either. Perhaps we should find some way of > keeping the test suite under the "C" locale, perhaps disabling or > conditionalizing tests that require a UTF-8 locale.
Some tests need this either to have expected error messages, or more fundamentaly for input file names decoding. I can propose something similar with 'Need recoded file names' with a dummy set on the test command line. How can the existence of "en_US.UTF-8" be tested? -- Pat
