Re: [PATCH 4/5] generic/45[34]: force UTF-8 codeset to enable utf-8 namer checks in xfs_scrub

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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 04:37:55PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The upcoming xfs_scrub tool will have the ability to warn about
> suspicious UTF-8 normalization collisions.  We want generic/45[34] to be
> able to test this functionality, but to do that we have to forcibly set
> the codeset to UTF-8 via LC_ALL since the rest of xfstests only uses
> LC_ALL=C.

Wait.  Where do you want to validate UTF-8 normalization?  There is
absolutely no guarantee that someone uses UTF-8, so any reliance on
the character set in the file system is bogus.
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