From 21b5dc8bb5a330b84f6180edd48d08177eb371f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 18:59:24 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid a multibyte tr portability problem * tests/init.cfg (tr): New wrapper function. Reported by Norihiro Tanaka in http://debbugs.gnu.org/18991 --- tests/init.cfg | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/init.cfg b/tests/init.cfg index 75a9494..e7a2389 100644 --- a/tests/init.cfg +++ b/tests/init.cfg @@ -162,3 +162,12 @@ hex_printf_() printf $(printf '\\%o' \ $(printf %s "$1"|sed 's,\\x\([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]\), 0x\1,g')) } + +# Wrap tr so that it always runs in the C locale. +# Otherwise, in a multibyte locale, GNU tr (which is not multibyte-aware +# as of 2014-11-08), would work differently than others. For example, +# this command, which was written with unibyte GNU tr in mind, +# LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP tr AB '\244\263' +# would act like this with the multibyte tr from HP-UX and Solaris: +# LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP tr A '\244\263' +tr() { LC_ALL=C env -- tr "$@"; } -- 2.1.2