Subject: Re: bug#17943: parted-3.1.90 alpha make check fails t0251-gpt-unicode on Debian 7

From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:09:15 -0400

Phillip Susi <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 8/3/2014 6:53 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> parted-3.2 fails the same test when built on GNU Guix because the 
>> "C.UTF-8" locale is not available (see below).  Changing 
>> t0251-gpt-unicode.sh to use "en_US.UTF-8" fixes the problem.
>
> What?  It should not be possible to not have the C locale; it is the
> native, untranslated locale and is the fallback locale used whenever
> the chosen locale is missing or incomplete.

Upstream GNU libc includes a "C" locale which is limited to ASCII.
However, it does not include a "C.UTF-8" locale.  See this discussion:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094

GNU Guix uses upstream GNU libc, so it doesn't have "C.UTF-8" either.

   Regards,
     Mark