dg-error vs. i18n?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Dave Korn wrote:

> Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > 
> >> The testsuite should run with C locale.
> > 
> > Unfortunately it appears there are now some systems where C no longer 
> > implies ASCII, causing problems for predictability of output.  
> 
>   I was asked about this on another list: by "some systems", do you mean any
> other than Cygwin?  Are you specifically aware of any e.g. linux distros that
> default to say UTF-8 in the C locale, or were you just making a general
> statement since the Cygwin case proves that there "exists at least one" such
> system?

It was stated on #gcc on 12 August that AIX 5.3 returns "ISO8859-1" from 
nl_langinfo (CODESET) in the C locale, which also causes problems for 
testcases that are making assertions about GCC's English-language, 
ASCII-charset output.

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Joseph S. Myers
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