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James M Snell wrote:
> Yeah, the challenge I have with this is that it makes the test
> circular... testing the output of a function against the output of the
> same function.  We need to understand why the test is failing on the Mac
> and figure out if it's something we need to fix.
>
> - James
>   
Yeah, the only thing that's still being actually tested in my diff are 
that the default encoding is what it's supposed to be.  I can see 
arguing that beyond that, the tests are superfluous in that it's commons 
codec's responsibility to generate correct output; that said, what you 
want is proper encoding handling, so the way the tests are actually 
structured is preferable.  At any rate, if the encoding is crucial and 
it's not working on a popular(?) platform, that's probably worth knowing.

IMO, the three most likely causes are a file encoding problem, an Apple 
JVM bug, a commons codec bug, or some kind of interaction between the 
latter.  Since I'm unfamiliar with the other stuff, though, I'm not sure 
where I'd start, so I've been looking at the file encoding angle.

Both OSes think their respective copies are encoded as UTF-8;  I tried 
iconv to iso-8859-1, and for fun, to utf-8, with the same results.  One 
thing I didn't try yet was replacing the é  in the test string with 
\u00e9, which should answer that question.  I'll try that when I can get 
some time later.  If none of that pans out, I'll start exploring the JVM 
angle.

On another topic: is the current plan to have a 0.30 release soon after 
the APP draft is submitted to the IESG?

AC