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[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

"make check" of coreutils-4.5.3 fails for me.
System details:
   Linux
   glibc 2.3
   perl 5.8.0
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

Making check in fmt
make[2]: Entering directory `/packages/coreutils-4.5.3/tests/fmt'
make  check-TESTS
make[3]: Entering directory `/packages/coreutils-4.5.3/tests/fmt'
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61, immediately 
after start byte 0xe7) at - line 12.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x62, immediately 
after start byte 0xe7) at - line 12.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61, immediately 
after start byte 0xe7) at - line 13.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at ../Fetish.pm line 171.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at ../Fetish.pm line 171.
-: test 8-bit-pfx: stdout mismatch, comparing 8-bit-pfx.2 (actual) and 
8-bit-pfx.O (expected)
Binary files 8-bit-pfx.2 and 8-bit-pfx.O differ
FAIL: basic
PASS: long-line
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1 of 2 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
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make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Fehler 1

I don't know what the test is trying to achieve (it's perl ==> illegible)
but you seem to be feeding ISO-8859-1 encoded strings to my poor perl running
in an UTF-8 locale.

Also note a redundancy in the code:

@ENV{qw(LANGUAGE LANG LC_ALL)} = ('C') x 3;

is overkill. If LC_ALL="C", the values of LANG and LANGUAGE are irrelevant.

Bruno