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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:34:01 -0700
From: Michelle Caisse <Michelle.Caisse@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: norway specific failure in CollationTest2
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For a quick response, in Norwegian, a sequence of two 'a' characters is 
equivalent to a single 'a'-with-a-circle-on-top character. Maybe someone 
who both knows more about Norwegian and character sets can confirm  later.

-- Michelle
 
Mike Matrigali wrote:
> I'll try to figure out what is going on with the CollationTest2 test.
> I am not seeing it in my environment, and it does not seem to have
> shown up in any of the publically posted nightly regression tests.
>
> Can someone from Norway help, is it possible that 2 strings used in
> the test, are to be treated as equal in Norway?:
> "Wσgan" "Waagan"
>
> The first string contains an unfamilar character (to my english 
> environment - I am not sure my mailer will even handle it correctly) 
> as it's second letter, and I am wondering if I should have used a 
> unicode escape for the data
> instead.  See the data string in the runDerby2670()routine of the
> CollationTest2 test.
>
> Is there a chance that in norway aa is supposed to be treated
> as equal to the second letter in the first string listed?  If so then
> either order may be right, and the test is incorrectly testing for
> one order or the other.
>
> I tried to take the data from a donated test case and put it into
> the junit test.  It could be I messed something up on my side dealing
> with a non english character in some step of the way (file handling, 
> code sets, editor, ...).
>
> Rick Hillegas wrote:
>
>> Julius Stroffek wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> When I ran junit tests now for trunk I get 17 errors and 70 failures of
>>> many different kinds.
>>>
>>> My junit console output with exceptions thrown is attached. Probably it
>>> is something wrong with my test environment or so, but I have no idea
>>> what happened. Are there any issues with upgrade tests due to a new
>>> release? Probably this is not the case since these tests does not fail
>>> in daily and tinderbox test runs.
>>>
>>> I always delete the contents of the current directory where I run tests
>>> (which ends using as derby.system.home). I tried to checkout the source
>>> again and start from a scratch but it does not helped.
>>>
>>> I run junit throught suites.All.
>>>   
>>
>> Hi Julo,
>>
>> I saw tons of upgrade errors in tests which I ran yesterday. Those 
>> errors disappeared after I synced my client to the mainline this 
>> morning. Now I am seeing the error which you are seeing in 
>> CollationTest2. Otherwise, the tests run cleanly for me.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Rick
>>