Re: svn commit: r1654810 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/prop_tests.py

On 9 February 2015 at 18:22, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Branko Čibej [mailto:brane_at_wandisco.com]
>> Sent: maandag 9 februari 2015 16:04
>> To: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: svn commit: r1654810 -
>> /subversion/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/prop_tests.py
>>
>> On 09.02.2015 14:40, Philip Martin wrote:
>> > Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> On 9 February 2015 at 16:22, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> "Bert Huijben" <bert_at_qqmail.nl> writes:
>> >>>
>> >>>> A few years ago we added code to the test suite that should force the
>> >>>> locale to the expected locale and that works for me...
>> >>> build/run_tests.py
>> >>>
>> >>> # Ensure the compiled C tests use a known locale (Python tests set the
>> locale
>> >>> # explicitly).
>> >>> os.environ['LC_ALL'] = 'C'
>> >>>
>> >>> subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py
>> >>>
>> >>> # Set C locale for command line programs
>> >>> os.environ['LC_ALL'] = 'C'
>> >>>
>> >> It seems this code doesn't work if Windows is configured to use non-US
>> >> locale as *system* locale.
>> > Does setting LANGUAGE work? Or perhaps LANG?
>>
>> No; Windows doesn't have the concept of per-process locales, only
>> per-window input methods.
>
> Why does this then change the output of my dates from English to Dutch?
>
Changing LC_ALL environment variable doesn't affect 'svn ls -v' output
on my Windows 7 machine:
$ set LC_ALL=en_US
$ svn ls -v
D:\Ivan\SVN\trunk>svn ls -v CHANGES
1681897 breser 309451 май 27 04:10 CHANGES

> Windows itself doesn't support this, but the C runtime library certainly does support this.
>
I've looked through VS2013 C runtime source code and didn't find code
that access LC_ALL environment variable.

I'm going to tweak this test to use xml mode to have locale
independent output: test failures are bad.

-- 
Ivan Zhakov