Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Richard Guenther wrote:
>
>> The testsuite should run with C locale.
>
> Unfortunately it appears there are now some systems where C no longer
> implies ASCII, causing problems for predictability of output. So the
> testsuite may need to check the host and use other host-specific names
> (C.US-ASCII?) in some cases.
Thanks, that was it. Had to use "C.CP437" in the end, apparently we have
charset encoding names for lots of OEM code pages but none for plain vanilla
ASCII.
cheers,
DaveK
