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There are a few issues with the locales portion of the libstdc++ testsuite. These issues stem from the fact that much about locales are not standardized, such as the names of the encodings, how to handle abbreviated versions of named locales, and modifiers (e.g. @euro, @preeuro). Compounding the problem is that many of test themselves are Linux specific. The attached large patch makes a dent with an effort to resolve this issues. This patch has been scoped to only standardise the names of the locales. There is no net effect on Linux, but it allows many more tests to be considered on other systems, including *BSD. Some types of changes are: 1) convert abreviations to full names (e.g. "de_DE" => "de_DE@ISO8859-15 2) Use ISO-8859-15 over ISO-8859-1 in European locales when possible 3) Use "UTF-8" over variations like "utf8" 4) Use "ISO8859" over "ISO-8859" on these last two, Linux is case-insensitive and hyphen-insensitive with respect to named locales where other systems like BSD have only one version that must be explicitly used. Since encoding names are not standardised, we've picked a lowest common denominator that works. 5) case changes for eucJP 6) convert tests that specified "@euro" modifier to a new ISO_8859 macro can produces a named locale as a function of system (currently FreeBSD/DragonFly/NetBSD and everything else but the tailoring is not limited). This fixes systems that don't support @euro modifier There is a lot more work that cant be done to open up libstdc++ locale tests to non-Linux systems, but given the size of this patch, I wanted to limit it's scope to only modifying to the name locale specification. There are many more modifications that could be made to the test themselves to make them portable to non-linux systems but I think they are better made with separate patches. Andreas Tobler has done a lot of review and testing on both FreeBSD and linux (to verify no regressions), and Jonathan Wakely has done an initial review and said it was ready for a broader review now. Thanks, John
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