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[PATCH] tests: fix encoding with `tr' to support multibyte in test

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
Cc: 18991-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18991: [PATCH] tests: fix encoding with `tr' to support
 multibyte in test
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 19:00:55 -0800

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On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> It seems that `tr' in GNU coreutils does not recoginize multibyte
> character, but other imprementation, e.g. HP-UX, Solaris, recoginizes it.
>
> As a result, [ echo AB | LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP tr AB '\244\263' ] is
> transformed as [ echo AB | LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP tr A '\244\263' ], so that
> '\244\263' is recognized as a single multibyte character.  We do not
> expect that.

Thank you for the report and patch.
However, it is not maintainable to modify every use of "tr" in
the tests.  Instead, I've addressed this by making all of the
tests use tr through a wrapper that always sets LC_ALL=C:

[0001-tests-avoid-a-multibyte-tr-portability-problem.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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