[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Skip test_getsetlocale_issue1813() on Fedora due to setlocale() bug.

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> Fedora's glibc has an additional issue with the Turkish 'I' that can
> be reproduced by the simple C program in:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726536

OK, this runs successfully on Ubuntu Lucid and FreeBSD (if you change
the first tr_TR to tr_TR.UTF-8).

But it fails on Debian lenny, as does test_getsetlocale_issue1813().


I suspect many buildbots are green because they don't have tr_TR and
tr_TR.iso8859-9 installed.



Synopsis for the people who don't want to wade through the bug reports:


If this is a valid C program ...

#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
int
main(void)
{
    char *s;
    printf("%s\n", setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "tr_TR"));
    printf("%s\n", setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL));
    s = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "tr_TR.ISO8859-9");
    printf("%s\n", s ? s : "null");
    return 0;
}

..., several systems (Fedora 14, Debian lenny) have a glibc bug that
is exposed by test_getsetlocale_issue1813(). People usually don't
see this because tr_TR and tr_TR.iso8859-9 aren't installed.



Stefan Krah