Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> skribis: > On 09-08-2022 15:50, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> + (entry (tag "tag-for-first-news-entry") >>> + (title (en "Old news.") (eo "Malnova?oj.")) >> The question mark here suggests you’re not running the tests with a >> UTF-8 locale. >> >> Could you add, say, ‘glibc-locales’ to your environment, ensure >> GUIX_LOCPATH points to it, and set LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 (or similar)? >> > Two comments: > > If tests require an UTF-8 locale, I think the tests (maybe in > build-aux/test-driver.scm?) should check that an UTF-8 that an UTF-8 > locale is actually in use and otherwise bail out properly. > > It's not a file-name but rather the contents of the news file, so I > would think we are just forgetting to pass some arguments like > #:encoding "UTF-8" -- making the interpretation of the news file > depend on the current locale doesn't seem good to me (it's encoding on > stdout with "guix pull --news" is another matter).
Agreed, I came to the same conclusion: 60e0aae89c channels: Consider news files as UTF-8-encoded by default. e1b8bace8c tests: git: Write files as UTF-8. Should have done that long ago! Ludo’.
