bug#23527: encoding-error test fails in non-English languages

[Jim Meyering]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Benno Schulenberg
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running 'make check' in a grep-2.25 source tree ends with one
> unexpected failure, in the encoding-error test, when LANGUAGE
> is set to something other than "en".
>
> ============================================================================
> Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.25
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 102
> # PASS:  66
> # SKIP:  33
> # XFAIL: 2
> # FAIL:  1
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
>
>
> The essential difference seems to be:
>
> --- exp 2016-05-13 13:05:26.000000000 +0200
> +++ out 2016-05-13 13:05:26.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -Binary file in matches
> +Duuma dosiero in kongruas
>
>
> When I run 'LANGUAGE=en make check', there are no failures:

Hi Benno,
Thank you for the report.
Here's a barely-tested patch:

0001-maint-do-not-let-a-LANGUAGE-envvar-setting-perturb-t.patch
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