[Monotone-devel] Re: problems with i18n testsuite

[graydon hoare]

Martin Waitz wrote:

> when running the monotone testsuite, i get two problems:
>  * the netsync test doesn't terminate until i press ctrl-c
>  * the i18n test failes.

yes, these are both bugs in the testsuite. I have fixed them in the 
development version, and they should work again in 0.12. I did not 
notice them at the time I released 0.11 because I had an old version of 
the autotest m4 macros which did not exhibit the bugs.

> why is it trying to convert from/to ANSI_X3.4-1968 (which seems to be
> plain ascii) here?

the new versions of the autotest macros reset all the locale-related 
environment variables to "C" (ascii) before running tests. this is just 
wrong imho, but I have put in work-around code for the time being.

> by the way: shouldn't filenames always be encoded in utf-8?
> at least many file managers seem to use utf-8 file names.
> that way it is still possible for the user to find his files
> when he switched his locale (or via remote access)

well, it should simply detect UTF-8 if that's your locale (when autotest 
doesn't interfere) but many users have other encodings already in use 
(KOI, EUC, ISO8859-x) and we need to be able to interoperate with them.

-graydon