On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 07:03, Michael <aixto...@felt.demon.nl> wrote: > > As I have time, I'll dig into these. > > I have a couple of PR already 'out there', which I hope someone will be > looking at when/as he/she/they have time. My time will also be intermittent. > > My next test - and I hope not too difficult - would be the test_utf8. The > test: > > FAIL: test_cmd_line (test.test_utf8_mode.UTF8ModeTests) > > fails - and I am wondering if it is as simple as AIX default mode is ISO8559-1 > and the test looks to be comparing UTF8 with the locale_default. > If that is the case, obviously this test will never succeed - asis. > > Am I understanding the test properly. > If yes, then I'll see what I can come up with for a patch to the test for AIX. > If no, I'll need some hand holding to help me understand the test
UTF-8 mode relates to PEP 540, and the intent is that the default C/POSIX locale should either be coerced to a UTF-8 based one (by the PEP 538 mechanism), or else UTF-8 mode will activate, and CPython will set its *own* encoding to UTF-8, and ignore the locale one. We did need to make the PEP 538 tests AIX-aware [1] so they knew what to expect as the default encoding when locale coercion was disabled, so it's possible some further special casing will be needed in the UTF-8 mode tests as well. Cheers, Nick. [1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/test/test_c_locale_coercion.py#L40 -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
