bug#23527: encoding-error test fails in non-English languages

[Jim Meyering]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Benno Schulenberg
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Running 'make check' in a grep-2.25 source tree ends with one
>> unexpected failure, in the encoding-error test, when LANGUAGE
>> is set to something other than "en".
>>
>> ============================================================================
>> Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.25
>> ============================================================================
>> # TOTAL: 102
>> # PASS:  66
>> # SKIP:  33
>> # XFAIL: 2
>> # FAIL:  1
>> # XPASS: 0
>> # ERROR: 0
>>
>>
>> The essential difference seems to be:
>>
>> --- exp 2016-05-13 13:05:26.000000000 +0200
>> +++ out 2016-05-13 13:05:26.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -1 +1 @@
>> -Binary file in matches
>> +Duuma dosiero in kongruas
>>
>>
>> When I run 'LANGUAGE=en make check', there are no failures:
>
> Hi Benno,
> Thank you for the report.
> Here's a barely-tested patch:

Here it is again, with a better commit log:

0001-maint-do-not-let-a-LANGUAGE-envvar-setting-perturb-t.patch
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