Re: [PATCH] Fix tramp test

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.

Tramp sets LC_ALL to "en_US.utf8", "C.utf8", or "C". In this order,
whatever is available on the remote system. But a user is free to
overwrite such settings.

Best regards, Michael.