> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:16:29 +0000 > Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 04:27:21PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Btw, an additional annoyance when unpacking the tarball of this > > pretest is that it creates files with non-ASCII characters that any > > Windows commands cannot delete. I needed to look for a suitable tool > > which would be up to the job; 3 out of 4 tools failed. I wonder if > > this could be avoided in some way. > > The files with non-ASCII file names are all for texi2any tests, > either under tp/t or tp/tests. > > We have discussed non-ASCII files before: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2023-10/msg00066.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2023-12/msg00019.html > > The easy way to eliminate non-ASCII file names would be to remove those > tests, of course.
Can they be included as some kind or archive? Like shar file, for example? Then users on Posix systems could unpack that before running the test suite, and users of Windows won't. Or some other similar solution; removing the tests sounds too harsh to me. If worse comes to worst, i.e. no reasonable solution presents itself, you can always leave things as they are: I eventually found the way to delete these files, so will know how to solve this next time it comes up.
