[issue28996] wcscoll is broken on Android and test_locale fails

[Xavier de Gaye]

New submission from Xavier de Gaye:

These failures happen now that issue 28596 has been fixed and that locale.getpreferredencoding(False) returns 'UTF-8'.

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FAIL: test_strcoll_with_diacritic (test.test_locale.TestEnUSCollation)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sdcard/org.bitbucket.pyona/lib/python3.7/test/test_locale.py", line 362, in test_strcoll_with_diacritic
    self.assertLess(locale.strcoll('à', 'b'), 0)
AssertionError: 1 not less than 0

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FAIL: test_strxfrm_with_diacritic (test.test_locale.TestEnUSCollation)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sdcard/org.bitbucket.pyona/lib/python3.7/test/test_locale.py", line 365, in test_strxfrm_with_diacritic
    self.assertLess(locale.strxfrm('à'), locale.strxfrm('b'))
AssertionError: 'à' not less than 'b'

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assignee: xdegaye
components: Tests
messages: 283474
nosy: xdegaye
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: wcscoll is broken on Android and test_locale fails
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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