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Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing
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Karl Berry |
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Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing |
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Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:27:46 -0500 |
The problem here is that we need to know the user's lang/country info
plus the user's encoding,
Ok, but why?
and we try to use the locale configuration for that. So, if we get C
or POSIX as locales, what should we do?
What are the consequences of any particular choice? I mean, say we make
the default be en_US for the location and US-ASCII for the encoding,
what does that mean for users in practice?
Also, the locale very often does not specify encoding info. It's far
more common to use "de_DE" than to use "de_DE.UTF-8" or whatever. What
do you do in that case, when the information is partial?
Anyway, the point is, you can't just give up and say you don't support
the C/POSIX locale. That is the single most common used locale,
especially in scripts. I expect you are all well aware of that, but
since the question arose ...
The important thing is what the software does for users (either
end-users or library users). Whether tests fail or not is basically
inconsequential. Of course if you're testing some lang/enc-specific
thing, it can't work in C/POSIX. So if the test reports failure, that
is expected, and therefore the test was successful :). Just fix the
test framework to take care of that.
karl
Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, gerel, 2008/09/07
Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, pete, 2008/09/14
- Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, jemarch, 2008/09/14
- Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, Zac Brown, 2008/09/14
- Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing,
Karl Berry <=
- Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, Aleksander Morgado, 2008/09/15
- Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, gerel, 2008/09/15
- Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, jemarch, 2008/09/15
- Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, Aleksander Morgado, 2008/09/15
- Re: [pdf-devel] Text module unit tests failing, jemarch, 2008/09/15