On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:42 AM James Coleman <jtc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 7:17 AM Juan José Santamaría Flecha < > juanjo.santama...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 3:48 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> >>> James Coleman <jtc...@gmail.com> writes: >>> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 9:31 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> >> Looks like you may not have Turkish locale installed? Try >>> >> locale -a | grep tr_TR >>> >>> > Hmm, when I grep the locales I see `tr_TR.utf8` in the output. I >>> assume the >>> > utf8 version is acceptable? Or is there a non-utf8 variant? >>> >>> Hmm ... I'm far from an expert on the packaging of locale data, but >>> the simplest explanation I can think of is that the tr_TR locale exists >>> to some extent on your machine but the LC_TIME component of that is >>> missing. >>> >> >> AFAICS, the locale 'tr_TR' uses the encoding ISO-8859-9 (LATIN5), is not >> the same as 'tr_TR.utf8'. >> > > The test name implies it's about utf8, though, which makes me wonder if > the test should be testing utf8 instead? > > That being said, a bit more googling based on your node about the proper > ISO encoding turned up this page: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/446762 > > And I confirmed that the locale you mentioned is available: > $ grep "tr_TR" /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED > tr_TR.UTF-8 UTF-8 > tr_TR ISO-8859-9 > > So I tried: > echo tr_TR.ISO-8859-9 >> /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local # In a root > session > sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales > > That didn't seem to fix it, though `locale -a` still only lists > tr_TR.utf8, so I'm still at a loss, and also unclear why a test names utf8 > is actually relying on an ISO encoding. > Another update: Since sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales opens up an ncurses gui on my machine, I tried selecting the tr_TR.ISO-8859-9 option there and removed the /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local file. Now I get: $ locale -a | grep tr_TR tr_TR tr_TR.iso88599 tr_TR.utf8 And now `make check` passes. I'm still interested in understanding why we're using the ISO locale instead of the utf8 one in a utf8-labeled test though. Thanks, James
