On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 10:43 -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote: > On Oct 9, 2009, at 03:54, Ken Raeburn wrote: > > The code in regexp.test tries the suffixes ".ISO-8859-1" and > > ".iso88591" when selecting locale names. I take it that means > > there's inadequate standardization on the naming of encodings across > > systems? Well, when I make it try ".ISO8859-1", most of the tests > > pass on Mac OS X. The "string of all chars" ones still fail; I'm > > looking into those. > > The "string of all chars" test calls setbinary before performing the > test. The documentation for setbinary says it sets the encoding for > current input, output and error streams to ISO-8859-1, as well as > making it the default for new ports. Is that supposed to affect make- > regexp and regexp-exec as well? > > If I replace the call with a call to set-latin-1 (modified to try > ".ISO8859-1", as described above), which sets the locale, the test > passes on the Mac.
Excellent. I pushed that. > > Ken -Mike
