bug#79300: fold-nbsp test failure

Collin Funk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruno Haible <[email protected]> writes:

> Collin Funk wrote:
>> My initial idea was to check if U+2007 FIGURE SPACE and U+00A0 NO-BREAK
>> SPACE are blank using grep. But apparently Solaris grep does not handle
>> multibyte characters. Therefore, FIGURE SPACE cannot be checked. :(
>
> I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. I reported the test
> failure from the fold-nbsp test, as committed in git. It does not use
> 'grep'. It uses 'compare' (from tests/init.sh).

Sorry, should have been more clear.

I was trying to think of a workaround, i.e. check if U+2007 is
considered blank or not. And then decide if the test should be skipped.

Collin
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