view tests/test-diff-newlines.t @ 44261:04a3ae7aba14

chg: force-set LC_CTYPE on server start to actual value from the environment

Python 3.7+ will "coerce" the LC_CTYPE variable in many instances, and this can
cause issues with chg being able to start up. D7550 attempted to fix this, but a
combination of a misreading of the way that python3.7 does the coercion and an
untested state (LC_CTYPE being set to an invalid value) meant that this was
still not quite working.

This change will cause differences between chg and hg: hg will have the LC_CTYPE
environment variable coerced, while chg will not. This is unlikely to cause any
detectable behavior differences in what Mercurial itself outputs, but it does
have two known effects:

-   When using hg, the coerced LC_CTYPE will be passed to subprocesses, even
    non-python ones. Using chg will remove the coercion, and this will not
    happen. This is arguably more correct behavior on chg's part.
-   On macOS, if you set your region to Brazil but your language to English,
    this isn't representable in locale strings, so macOS sets LC_CTYPE=UTF-8. If
    this value is passed along when ssh'ing to a non-macOS machine, some
    functions (such as locale.setlocale()) may raise an exception due to an
    unsupported locale setting. This is most easily encountered when doing an
    interactive commit/split/etc. when using ui.interface=curses.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8039

  $ hg init

  $ "$PYTHON" -c 'open("a", "wb").write(b"confuse str.splitlines\nembedded\rnewline\n")'
  $ hg ci -Ama -d '1 0'
  adding a

  $ echo clean diff >> a
  $ hg ci -mb -d '2 0'

  $ hg diff -r0 -r1
  diff -r 107ba6f817b5 -r 310ce7989cdc a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
   confuse str.splitlines
   embedded\r (no-eol) (esc)
  newline
  +clean diff