Re: portability issues with unicodeio

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Bruno,

> Le 9 juil. 2020 à 17:31, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> a écrit :
> 
> Kiyoshi KANAZAWA wrote:
>> make check passed both on Solaris 11.3 & 11.4.
> 
> Oh, I see. So my unit test was not complete.
> 
>>> It is succeeds this test, then what is the difference between the
>>> coreutils printf program and the test-unicodeio.c program? Both call
>>> setlocale (LC_ALL, "").
>> 
>> I do not understand.
>> What should I do next ?
> 
> I single-stepped both the coreutils printf program and the test-unicodeio.c
> program, and found the issue.
> 
> 
> 2020-07-09  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
> 
>       unicodeio: Fix wrong result on Solaris 11.
>       Reported by Kiyoshi Kanazawa <yoi_no_myoujou@yahoo.co.jp>
>       via Akim Demaille <akim.demaille@gmail.com> in
>       <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-07/msg00036.html>.
>       * lib/unicodeio.c (unicode_to_mb): Handle question mark fallback
>       characters on Solaris.
>       * tests/test-unicodeio.c (main): In the "C" locale, expect either the
>       UTF-8 output or the specified fallback.

Excellent!  Bruno, thanks a lot for this.

Yesterday evening I launched the process of releasing a new beta so
that Kiyoshi could try it, but did not send the announcement.  Yet
Kiyoshi managed to find out there was a new beta, and already confirmed
the issue is fixed.

Thanks to both of you.

Cheers!