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Re: PATCH: Enable D07multibyte.ztst for locales ending in .utf8

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: Enable D07multibyte.ztst for locales ending in .utf8
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:08:12 +0100
In-reply-to: <20090427031126.GB28369@otaku>
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References: <20090426171821.GA28369@otaku> <20090427031126.GB28369@otaku>

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:11:26 +0000
Paul Ackersviller <pda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:18:21PM +0000, Paul Ackersviller wrote:
> > I had closer look at why Test/D07multibyte.ztst was being skipped on
> > HP-UX 11.11, I guess it was just too obvious to spot sooner.  The locale
> > on the system is en_US.utf8, but that name was being transformed before use.
> 
> A bit of elaboration on this, since I was surprised to find the locales
> on my Linux boxen also named en_US.utf8, etc.  How could the orginal
> test script have been working then?  It appears that on Linux you can
> set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and get the (presumably) desired result.

Possibly this changed in the meanwhile but it looks like it doesn't care.
"UTF-8" is what's retrieved by nl_langinfo(CODESET).

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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References:
- PATCH: Enable D07multibyte.ztst for locales ending in .utf8
  - From: Paul Ackersviller
- Re: PATCH: Enable D07multibyte.ztst for locales ending in .utf8
  - From: Paul Ackersviller

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