Re: coreutils tests failure

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Thanks for the report and analysis!
> I think this patch fixes the test script portably,
> without resorting to the sledgehammer of LC_ALL=C.
> Would you please try it?

Doesn't work for me, using perl-5.8.0 in a de_DE.UTF-8 locale.
It seems that the conversion from #xFF to #xC3 #xBF is done in
perl's print function.

perl -e 'no locale; $s = pack("C",255) x 65537; foreach (1..257) {print $s}'

doesn't help either. The only thing that seems to help is

LC_ALL=C perl ...

Bruno