On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 09:51:33PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > + head -n 1 actual >first && > > + # The first line should be enclosed by full-width parenthesis. > > + grep "（.*）" first && > > I wonder whether it is a good idea to pretend that we can pass arbitrary > byte sequences to `grep`, independent of the current locale. On Windows, > this does not hold true, for example. > > It would probably make more sense to store a support file in t/t3207/, > much like it is done in t3900. > > And once you do that, you can simply `test_cmp t3207/first first`. No > need to `grep` for `master` in addition: I was just writing a similar response in another part of the thread, and found this. :) In addition to grep portability problems, IMHO the source with the raw UTF-8 characters is harder to read. Even if your editor and terminal support UTF-8, people without the right fonts will just get a bunch of empty boxes. And when debugging, you often care about the raw bytes anyway (e.g., when there are multiple representations of the same glyph). Adding a support file is fine, but for small cases like this, it may be easier to do: printf '\357\274\210...' >expect but note that this _must_ be octal, not hex, as many versions of printf only handle the former. -Peff
