#29423: make test - t/test_non_ascii.t fails

Hi,
I'm a member of the Debian Perl Group, and while packaging your module,
I've found that it fails the testsuite:

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t/test_non_ascii......................
# Failed test 'toString (on file)'
# in t/test_non_ascii.t at line 15.
# got: '<doc><ent>aü</ent><char>bü</char></doc>
# '
# expected: '<doc><ent>a�</ent><char>b�</char></doc>
# '
t/test_non_ascii......................ok 2/10

# Failed test 'findnodes_as_string( '//char') (on file)'
# in t/test_non_ascii.t at line 17.
# got: '<char>bü</char>'
# expected: '<char>b�</char>'
t/test_non_ascii......................NOK 3

# Failed test 'findvalue( '//ent') (on file)'
# in t/test_non_ascii.t at line 18.
# got: 'aü'
# expected: 'a

# Failed test 'findnodes_as_string( '//ent') (on file)'
# in t/test_non_ascii.t at line 19.
# got: '<ent>aü</ent>'
# expected: '<ent>a�</ent>'

# Failed test 'toString (on string)'
# in t/test_non_ascii.t at line 27.
# got: '<doc><ent>aü</ent><char>bü</char></doc>
# '
# expected: '<doc><ent>a�</ent><char>b�</char></doc>
# '
t/test_non_ascii......................NOK 6

t/test_non_ascii......................NOK 8# Failed test
'findnodes_as_string( '//char') (on string)'
# in t/test_non_ascii.t at line 29.
# got: '<char>bü</char>'
# expected: '<char>b�</char>'

# Failed test 'findvalue( '//ent') (on string)'
# in t/test_non_ascii.t at line 30.
t/test_non_ascii......................NOK 9# got: 'aü'

# expected: 'a

# Failed test 'findnodes_as_string( '//ent') (on string)'
# in t/test_non_ascii.t at line 31.
t/test_non_ascii......................NOK 10# got:
'<ent>aü</ent>'
# expected: '<ent>a�</ent>'
# Looks like you failed 8 tests of 10.
t/test_non_ascii......................dubious

Test returned status 8 (wstat 2048, 0x800)
DIED. FAILED tests 1, 3-6, 8-10
Failed 8/10 tests, 20.00% okay

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This happens with LANG=it_IT.UTF-8. We also tried other charsets, like
ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-1 and LANG=C, but neither worked.
Is there a solution to this? This problem is stopping your module from
being included in Debian repositories. And no, skipping 'make test'
cannot be a solution, we are used to run make test when building all our
packages (this is to ensure that each package entering Debian is fully
functional).

Kindly,
David Paleino
Debian Perl Group
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/

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Hi :),

Il giorno Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:42:45 -0400
" via RT" <bug-XML-DOM-XPath[...]rt.cpan.org> ha scritto:

> I HATE unicode related bugs! I can't seem to replicate that bug, as I
> only have en locales installed (ironic considering I am in Italy).

Can't you try installing them just to try? :)

> Could you try adding the -Cio flag at the top of t/test_non_ascii.t and
> let me know if it improves things by any chance? Thanks.

Did you mean changing:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

to

#!/usr/bin/perl -w -Cio

? No, it didn't help at all. :(

But... I have a question: since you have the en locales, shouldn't our LANG=C
avoid the error?

> BTW, I would never have suggested that you skipped the tests! ;--)

Well, most users would have done that ;)

> __
> mirod

Have a nice day,
David

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A member of the group (Gregor Herrmann <gregor+debian[...]comodo.priv.at>)
solved this bug, just use:

use encoding 'utf8';

instead of:

use utf8;

in t/test_non_ascii.t to make the test run correctly.

Please, fix this in the next release.

Kindly,
David