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

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Tue Aug 2 12:12:37 CEST 2011

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/showbug.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

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