[PATCH 0/8] character encoding portability updates

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: May 18, 2009, 23:44 UTC
Message-ID: <KfeKNR3Jm6YKvPIcYGBMpCbbOxxIaBRphS4qzgN2W9mXIvp7Hl8SgBQzbAhZRV4A4Q6X14JTLR4@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

I got a clue from Alex Riesen's "Use UTF-8 instead of utf8 for backward compatibility" commit 39d404d1 that some of the iconv issues on Solaris and IRIX could be caused by character code naming issues. It seems that these platforms do not understand all of the alternate names that modern platforms do.

Character encodings are not a strong point of mine, so do comment if you see something wrong.

In particular, notice 4/8 that changes the default fallback encoding to ISO8859-1 instead of latin1. My understanding is that these two are equivalent.

With this series applied, Solaris 10 must skip only 4 tests for me (plus two more if I use Korn shell). The remaining ones that are skipped have to do with iconv but the character code conversions being tested are not installed.

Solaris 7 must skip 30 (32 with Korn shell), down from 52 (54), and IRIX 6.5 must skip only 13, down from 44.

-brandon

Brandon Casey (8):
  t3900: use ancient iconv names for backward compatibility
  Use 'UTF-8' rather than 'utf-8' everywhere for backward compatibility
  builtin-mailinfo.c: compare character encodings case insensitively
  builtin-mailinfo.c: use "ISO8859-1" instead of "latin1" as fallback
    encoding
  t3901: avoid negation on right hand side of '|'
  t3901: Use ISO8859-1 instead of ISO-8859-1 for backward compatibility
  t9301: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1
  t5100: use ancient encoding syntax for backwards compatibility

 builtin-log.c                             |    2 +-
 builtin-mailinfo.c                        |   10 +++----
 builtin-revert.c                          |    4 +-
 pretty.c                                  |    4 +-
 t/t3900-i18n-commit.sh                    |   28 ++++++++++----------
 t/t3900/{ISO-8859-1.txt => ISO8859-1.txt} |    0
 t/t3900/{EUCJP.txt => eucJP.txt}          |    0
 t/t3901-i18n-patch.sh                     |   40 ++++++++++++++--------------
 t/t5100/rfc2047-samples.mbox              |   32 +++++++++++-----------
 t/t5100/sample.mbox                       |    8 +++---
 t/t9129-git-svn-i18n-commitencoding.sh    |   10 +++---
 t/t9301-fast-export.sh                    |    2 +-
 t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh    |    2 +-
 13 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
 rename t/t3900/{ISO-8859-1.txt => ISO8859-1.txt} (100%)
 rename t/t3900/{EUCJP.txt => eucJP.txt} (100%)