UTF-8 related test failure: tests/fmt/basic

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for another nice bug report!
Here is a patch.  Would you please let me know whether it works?

Jim

Index: tests/Fetish.pm
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RCS file: /fetish/cu/tests/Fetish.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.11 Fetish.pm
--- tests/Fetish.pm     13 May 2001 15:22:23 -0000      1.11
+++ tests/Fetish.pm     16 Nov 2002 16:03:34 -0000
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ require 5.003;
 use strict;
 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT);
 
+# In modern versions of Perl (e.g., 5.8), ensure that certain
+# sequences of bytes are not mistaken for malformed UTF-8 characters.
+eval 'use bytes';
+
 use FileHandle;
 use File::Compare qw(compare);