quotearg test (was: Re: locale_charset() on MacOS X)

2012-01-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > - POSIX [1] does not specify the character encoding of the "C" locale. > It could be US-ASCII or any extension of it, such as ISO-8859-1 or > UTF-8. > ... > Let's fix the testsuites. Here's a proposed patch for the testsuite failure currently seen on MacOS X 10.5: test-quo

Re: locale_charset() on MacOS X

2012-01-27 Thread Hans Aberg
On 27 Jan 2012, at 02:14, Bruno Haible wrote: > - On MacOS X nearly all users are working in the "C" locale. If a user >has told the OS that he's working in the French locale, the OS does >not set LC_* variables to indicate this, nor does the user usually >do so (why should he? he has

Re: locale_charset() on MacOS X

2012-01-26 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert reported: > . Akim Demaille wrote: > I'm sending this message to you as the main author of > the quotearg module. I am not sure which component should > be considered guilty here, but the problem is: > > - independent