Re: UTF-8 locales on BSDs do not support collation correctly

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

This thread sort of got hijacked by the utmpx issue, so we never got
to a resolution on the collation question that started it.  Is this
just an issue with the test or is there a real problem here?

Testing multibyte with locale en_US.UTF-8
--- /tmp/zsh.ztst.16197/ztst.out    2017-01-29 19:41:31.000000000 -0800
+++ /tmp/zsh.ztst.16197/ztst.tout    2017-01-29 19:41:31.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-a ą b c ć d e ę f
-a ą b c ć d e ę f
+a b c d e f ą ć ę
+a b c d e f ą ć ę
Test ./D07multibyte.ztst failed: output differs from expected as shown above

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Jun T. <takimoto-j@kba.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote:
> After the commit:
>
> commit 0e33ebc6514c8719513f3f20161274f6af2caffc
> Author: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Jan 24 12:01:57 2017 +0100
>
>     posted: Make D07 recognize more spellings of pl_PL.UTF-8
>
> diff --git a/Test/D07multibyte.ztst b/Test/D07multibyte.ztst
> (snip)
> -  if [[ -n ${$(locale -a 2>/dev/null)[(R)pl_PL.utf8]} ]]; then
> +  if [[ -n ${$(locale -a 2>/dev/null)[(R)pl_PL.(utf8|UTF-8)]} ]]; then
>
>
> the test D07multibyte.ztst fails on macOS and freeBSD.
> On these OSs (and maybe on other BSDs), the locale pl_PL.UTF-8 exists
> but it does not support collation correctly (it just uses ASCII collation).
>
> Are there any OS which uses UTF-8 (instead of utf8) for locale name
> and supports the collation correctly?