Re: Adding tests for non-C locales

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/11/2012 04:21 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to add tests for non-C locales (to check grouping in numfmt).
>
> My test script is written in Perl, based on "tests/misc/wc.pl" .
>
> It starts with:
> ===
>     @ENV{qw(LANGUAGE LANG LC_ALL)} = ('C') x 3;
> ===
>
> Which is fine for most of the tests.
>
> How do I add tests for non-C locale, in a safe manner (I need a locale that I 
> know which thousand-group separator character is used, but I can't know in 
> advanced if it's installed on the testing machine).

There is special handling of the fr_FR locale
to check that it's available etc.
To see uses of this in both sh and pl scripts:

git grep LOCALE_FR_UTF8

cheers,
Pádraig.