Re: plpython_unicode test (was Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales)

2014-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Andrew Dunstan writes: >> Let's just stick to ASCII. > The more I think about it, the more I think that using a plain-ASCII > character would defeat most of the purpose of the test. Non-breaking > space seems like the best bet here, not least because it has several > different represe

Re: plpython_unicode test (was Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales)

2014-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > On 06/01/2014 05:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I did a little bit of experimentation and determined that none of the >> LATIN1 characters are significantly more portable than what we've got: >> for instance a-acute fails to convert into 16 of the 33 supported >> server-side en

Re: plpython_unicode test (was Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales)

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 06/01/2014 05:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: I wrote: 3. Try to select some "more portable" non-ASCII character, perhaps U+00A0 (non breaking space) or U+00E1 (a-acute). I think this would probably work for most encodings but it might still fail in the Far East. Another objection is that the expec

Re: plpython_unicode test (was Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales)

2014-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > 3. Try to select some "more portable" non-ASCII character, perhaps U+00A0 > (non breaking space) or U+00E1 (a-acute). I think this would probably > work for most encodings but it might still fail in the Far East. Another > objection is that the expected/plpython_unicode.out file would

plpython_unicode test (was Re: [HACKERS] buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales)

2014-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Tomas Vondra writes: > On 13.5.2014 20:58, Tom Lane wrote: >> Tomas Vondra writes: >>> Yeah, not really what we were shooting for. I've fixed this by >>> defining the missing locales, and indeed - magpie now fails in >>> plpython tests. >> I saw that earlier today (tho right now the buildfarm se