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Re: Test failures in --disable-multibyte

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From: dana <dana@xxxxxxx>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Test failures in --disable-multibyte
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 14:23:47 -0600
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On 31 Dec 2019, at 12:39, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> given that so many
> tests fail — and failed in 5.7.1 too — I wonder whether anyone actually builds
> zsh with --disable-multibyte.

See workers/44272. Some people apparently do test with it at least.

(I'd intended to improve things from the test-harness side, and i got half-way
there, but it ended up being kind of ugly and weird, and as usual i got
overwhelmed trying to think about how to make it nicer and eventually set it
aside.)

Re: systems without wide-character support, i'm not very familiar, but the zsh
in Optware (package system for embedded devices) seems to use the defaults,
fwiw

dana

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- Test failures in --disable-multibyte
  - From: Daniel Shahaf

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