Issue 28996: wcscoll is broken on Android and test_locale fails - Python tracker

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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: xdegaye Nosy List: python-dev, xdegaye, yan12125
Priority: normal Keywords: patch

Created on 2016-12-17 08:35 by xdegaye, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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File name Uploaded Description Edit
test_locale_strcoll.patch xdegaye, 2016-12-17 16:02 review
Messages (5)
msg283474 - (view) Author: Xavier de Gaye (xdegaye) * (Python triager) Date: 2016-12-17 08:35
These failures happen now that issue 28596 has been fixed and that locale.getpreferredencoding(False) returns 'UTF-8'.

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FAIL: test_strcoll_with_diacritic (test.test_locale.TestEnUSCollation)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sdcard/org.bitbucket.pyona/lib/python3.7/test/test_locale.py", line 362, in test_strcoll_with_diacritic
    self.assertLess(locale.strcoll('à', 'b'), 0)
AssertionError: 1 not less than 0

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FAIL: test_strxfrm_with_diacritic (test.test_locale.TestEnUSCollation)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sdcard/org.bitbucket.pyona/lib/python3.7/test/test_locale.py", line 365, in test_strxfrm_with_diacritic
    self.assertLess(locale.strxfrm('à'), locale.strxfrm('b'))
AssertionError: 'à' not less than 'b'

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msg283496 - (view) Author: Xavier de Gaye (xdegaye) * (Python triager) Date: 2016-12-17 15:53
Both strcoll() and strxfrm() are broken (character 'à' unicode code point is 'e0'):

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
'C.UTF-8'
>>> locale.strcoll('\u00e0', 'b')
1
>>> locale.strxfrm('\u00e0') < locale.strxfrm('b')
False

The correct results are -1 and True.
msg283497 - (view) Author: Xavier de Gaye (xdegaye) * (Python triager) Date: 2016-12-17 16:02
Here is a patch that skips test_strcoll_with_diacritic and test_strxfrm_with_diacritic.
msg283500 - (view) Author: (yan12125) * Date: 2016-12-17 17:09
I'm afraid that the sentence "wcscoll/wcsxfrm have known bugs" is misleading for people who are not quite familiar with Android. The actual cause is that BioniC's setlocale() behaves differently than other platforms. Most implementations returns NULL if en_US.UTF-8 is not available, but BioniC returns C.UTF-8. I guess it's better to add some comments for the real cause on Android.
msg283598 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2016-12-19 09:47
New changeset 781c56168484 by Xavier de Gaye in branch '3.6':
Issue #28996: Skip two tests that fail on Android with the locale strcoll() and
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/781c56168484

New changeset 5c5cf7687dc1 by Xavier de Gaye in branch 'default':
Issue #28996: Merge 3.6.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5c5cf7687dc1