[bug #58165] test-suite: "nroff -V ..." fails for other devices than "ascii"

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #58165 (project groff):

I configured my system to compile the 8-bit Icelandic locale, and I simply
cannot reproduce this with the stock test.


$ locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TIME="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_PAPER="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NAME="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ADDRESS="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TELEPHONE="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MEASUREMENT="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="is_IS.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL=is_IS.ISO-8859-1
$ bash src/roff/nroff/tests/verbose_option_works.sh
testing 'nroff -V'
testing 'nroff -V 1'
testing 'nroff -V "1a 1b"'
testing 'nroff -V "1a 1b" 2'
testing 'nroff -V 1a\"1b 2'
$ echo $?
0


I can get 'latin1' in the output of nroff -V if I try to run pieces of the
test script in isolation, and forget to set LC_ALL:


$ GROFF_RUNTIME="${GROFF_BIN_PATH=.}:" ./nroff -V
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/home/branden/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
groff -Tlatin1 -mtty-char
$ LC_ALL=C GROFF_RUNTIME="${GROFF_BIN_PATH=.}:" ./nroff -V
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/home/branden/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
groff -Tascii -mtty-char


In the above, my current working directory is the "build/" subdirectory of a
groff git checkout.

I suspect your problem is arising from extracting pieces of the test script
and failing to prepare the locale in conformance with its expectations.

I also strongly encourage you to migrate every Unix system under your control
to UTF-8.

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