The character set in POSIX is set by the locale defined by (in
decreasing order of precedence) the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG
environment variables (CHARSET was used by libidn but not libidn2).
LC_ALL is cleared to ensure that LC_CTYPE takes effect, but LC_ALL is
not used to set the locale to ensure that other parts of the locale
aren't overridden. Since there doesn't seem to be a cross-platform way
of specifying a UTF-8 locale, and not all systems may support UTF-8, a
<precheck> is used to skip the test if UTF-8 can't be verified to be
available. Test 1035 was also converted to UTF-8 for consistency, as
the actual character set used there is irrelevant to the test.
This patch uses a different UTF-8 locale than the last attempt, namely
en_US.UTF-8. This one has been verified on 7 different Linux and BSD
distributions and is more complete and usable than the locale UTF-8 (on
at least some systems).
This reverts commit ecd1d020ab.
That commit caused test failures on my Debian Linux machine for all
changed test cases. We need to reconsider how that should get done.
Character set in POSIX is set by the locale defined (in decreasing order
of precedence) by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG environment variables (I
believe CHARSET is only historic). LC_ALL is cleared to ensure that
LC_CTYPE takes effect, but LC_ALL is not used to set the locale to
ensure that other parts of the locale aren't overriden, if set. Since
there doesn't seem to be a cross-platform way of specifying a UTF-8
locale, and not all systems may support UTF-8, a <precheck> is used
(where relevant) to skip the test if UTF-8 isn't in use. Test 1035 was
also converted to UTF-8 for consistency, as the actual character set
used there is irrelevant to the test.
Dan Fandrich