Re: [PATCH] t: use user-specific utf-8 locale for testing

[Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>]

Hi Đoàn,

On 02/06/21 18.46, Đoàn Trần Công Danh wrote:
> In some test-cases, utf-8 locale is required. To find such locale,
> we're using the first available UTF-8 locale that returned by
> "locale -a".
> 

On most systems, the first available such locale is C.UTF-8, so why 
don't we just use it?

> Despite being required by POSIX, locale(1) is unavailable in some
> systems, e.g. Linux with musl libc.  Some of those systems support
> utf-8 locale out of the box.
> 
> However, without "locale -a", we can't guess provided UTF-8 locale.
> 
> Let's give users of those systems an option to have better test
> coverage.
> 

So can we assume to UTF-8 locale as default for testing on systems 
without locale(1)?

> Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
> ---
>   Makefile                                 |  6 ++++++
>   t/lib-git-svn.sh                         | 15 +++++++++------
>   t/t9100-git-svn-basic.sh                 | 14 +++-----------
>   t/t9115-git-svn-dcommit-funky-renames.sh |  6 +++---
>   t/t9129-git-svn-i18n-commitencoding.sh   |  4 ++--
>   5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index c3565fc0f8..4b2c24e5ea 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -398,6 +398,9 @@ all::
>   # with a different indexfile format version.  If it isn't set the index
>   # file format used is index-v[23].
>   #
> +# Define GIT_TEST_UTF8_LOCALE to prefered utf-8 locale for testing.
> +# If it isn't set, use the first utf-8 locale returned by "locale -a".
> +#

Better say "... to prefer utf-8 locale for testing".

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