[MERGE][1.14][355273] Fix OSX test failures

[Jean-Francois Roy]

This is fairly interesting. Those failures are hinting that console  
encoding / locale settings are affecting filesystem operations, which  
they never should do.

On Apr 6, 2009, at 16:31, Brian de Alwis wrote:

> Hi Vincent.  I tried your branch on MacOS X 10.5.6 and there are  
> still a lot of failures to do with unicode stuff.  It seems that the  
> files with unicode filenames aren't being added during the test:
>
> 64.682  Selecting files for commit with filter []
>    INFO  missing Žluťoučký
>    INFO  Committed revision 3.
>    INFO  Žluťoučký is not versioned.
>
> This seems to be related to my LANG setting.  Using the default  
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, many tests fail due to the above.  If I change it  
> to C, most tests pass with only 5 errors.  I'll add the failing test  
> log to the original report.
>
> Brian.
>
>
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