From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:53:33 GMT
Subject: Re: git latest master: a6828f536119c3288b0be772e3870f1a464d017d -- error in t0050-filesystem.sh on Solaris
Message-ID: <20080312145333.GA11236@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <8ec76080803120649h587b1933x6ec513d4b51a29a9@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:49:25AM -0400, Whit Armstrong wrote:

> xs5-trd-p1.grn:warmstro> uname -a
> SunOS xs5-trd-p1.grn.tudor.com 5.9 Generic_118558-38 sun4u sparc
> SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 Solaris
> 
> the Unrecognized switch: -O is from the perl call:
> 
> ++ perl -CO -e 'print pack("U",0x00E4)'
> Unrecognized switch: -O  (-h will show valid options).
> + auml=
> ++ perl -CO -e 'print pack("U",0x0061).pack("U",0x0308)'
> Unrecognized switch: -O  (-h will show valid options).
> + aumlcdiar=

Yes, perl 5.005 doesn't understand -CO. You can replace that with
"binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'", but then you will find that it also doesn't
understand "U" as a pack specifier. :)

While the perl code nicely shows what is going on, perhaps it would be
simpler to just do something like:

  auml=`printf '\xc3\xa4'`

(which is the output that the perl gives on my Linux system).

-Peff