Re: [PATCH] Fix tramp test

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:14:57 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > A tiny patch for a test that fails in non English systems. OS output summary is
> > language dependent and for example in Polish it displays "razem 1234" instead of
> > "total 1234".
> >
> > Please let me know if it can't be applied for some reason.
> >
> > diff --git a/test/automated/tramp-tests.el b/test/automated/tramp-tests.el
> > index 2c4610c..e60a13f 100644
> > --- a/test/automated/tramp-tests.el
> > +++ b/test/automated/tramp-tests.el
> > @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ This tests also `file-directory-p' and `file-accessible-directory-p'."
> >  	     (looking-at-p
> >  	      (concat
> >  	       ;; There might be a summary line.
> > -	       "\\(total.+[[:digit:]]+\n\\)?"
> > +	       "\\([[:alpha:]].+[[:digit:]]+\n\\)?"
> 
> Better might be "\\([[:alpha:]]+[[:blank:]]+[[:digit:]]+\n\\)?"

IMO, [:alpha:] is too indiscreet: it will match almost anything,
except in pure ASCII range.  Including some error message, for
example.

So I think it would be much better to keep the literal "total", and
instead set LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8, or something similar.