On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:01:30AM -0600, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > Are we sure that DejaGnu should be sensitive to locales at all? > Perhaps the runtest shell script should always export LOCALE=C?
What if I want to test locale support in an application? I think forcing LANG=C is rather heavy handed. > Generally, matching non-ASCII characters in non-English locales > sounds like a good idea at first glance, but I expect it to prove to > be another "hidden influence" that users are likely to overlook. We > would need to be very careful about this, and changing variables > that existing testsuites might depend on in this way is fraught with > peril. Yes, that's the strongest argument for not changing it. The value of these variables are effectively part of the public API. I checked some of the GNU testsuites and they use these extensively. Cheers, Ben
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