jholg@gmx.de wrote:
It seems like the problem only arises on UCS-2 systems. Could anyone with a UCS-2 Linux system check if this is also fails there? UCS-2 can be detected with "sys.maxunicode" being 65535 (I think). UCS-4 systems say 1114111 here. I
Runs without failures on Solaris with sys.maxunicode==65535:
Thanks for testing. Just to be sure, Sun Solaris machines are big endian, right? Intel is little endian, so Solaris actually uses a different byte encoding here. So I think we can restrict the problem to UCS-2 little endian. Any non-Windows, non-Mac-OS-X testers for that one? Or maybe any Mac-OS PPC testers?
Note that I ran from 1.3 branch, not 1.3.2 release (found not 1.3.2 tag in the repository)
Thanks for reminding me. It's there now.
so maybe the offending test has been disabled already (?)
No, it's still in there. Stefan