How to write test requiring a specific locale?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 08/27/2015 05:35 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:
> Hi All
>
> In https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8133910, the test tries to 
> grep certain text from tool output, but when the default locale is not 
> "en_US" it might fail.
>
> I don't want to rewrite the test to check localized text so there are 
> only 2 ways:
>
> 1. Force the text to run with "en_US". In Unix, seems setting LANG or 
> LC_ALL to "en_US.UTF-8" (these are script tests), but it does not work 
> on Windows. I can only think of adding "-J-Duser.language=en 
> -J-Duser.country=US" into TESTTOOLVMOPTS.
>
> 2. Ignore the text when locale is not en_US. The @requires tag does 
> not support user.encoding. Shall I check $LANG or $LC_ALL? Should they 
> contain "en_US" on most test machines? Or it's "C"?
>
> Thanks
> Max

It would be easy enough to make jtreg @requires understand user.encoding.

-- Jon