Test fail on debian 3.1

Ruby Apps Ferret
1

I have a problem, I use utf all over a rails site, but the search failes
to search characters with acccents…

I try to debug it, and i had run unit tests for ferret, can those
failures cose problems?

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.3/test/ ruby test_all.rb
Loading once
Loaded suite test_all
Started
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Finished in 4.729505 seconds.

  1) Failure:
test_custom_filter(CustomAnalyzerTest)
[./unit/../unit/index/../../unit/store/../../unit/analysis/tc_analyzer.rb:516]:
 expected but was
.

  2) Failure:
test_letter_analyzer(LetterAnalyzerTest)
[./unit/../unit/index/../../unit/store/../../unit/analysis/tc_analyzer.rb:100]:
 expected but was
.

  3) Failure:
test_letter_tokenizer(LetterTokenizerTest)
[./unit/../unit/index/../../unit/store/../../unit/analysis/tc_token_stream.rb:73]:
 expected but was
.

  4) Failure:
test_standard_analyzer(StandardAnalyzerTest)
[./unit/../unit/index/../../unit/store/../../unit/analysis/tc_analyzer.rb:275]:
 expected but was
.

  5) Failure:
test_standard_tokenizer(StandardTokenizerTest)
[./unit/../unit/index/../../unit/
 expected but was
.

  6) Failure:
test_white_space_analyzer(WhiteSpaceAnalyzerTest)
[./unit/../unit/index/../../un
 expected but was
.

  7) Failure:
test_whitespace_tokenizer(WhiteSpaceTokenizerTest)
[./unit/../unit/index/../../u
 expected but was
.

162 tests, 12082 assertions, 7 failures, 0 errors
2

David B. wrote:

You need to have a UTF-8 locale installed or Ferret doesn’t know how
to deal with UTF-8 characters. Try typing locale at the command line
to see what locale you have installed.

That was it, thanks!

3

On 3/9/07, Linus [email protected] wrote:

Started
test_letter_analyzer(LetterAnalyzerTest)
GÃ":55:62:1]> expected but was
test_standard_tokenizer(StandardTokenizerTest)
<token[“ÃÃGîÃÃïÃÃìÃÃÃ
G”:55:60:1]>.

  1. Failure:
    test_whitespace_tokenizer(WhiteSpaceTokenizerTest)
    [./unit/…/unit/index/…/…/u
    <token["ÃÃ ":55:86:1]> expected but was
    <token[“ÃÃGîÃÃïÃÃìÃÃÃ
    G”:55:60:1]>.

162 tests, 12082 assertions, 7 failures, 0 errors

You need to have a UTF-8 locale installed or Ferret doesn’t know how
to deal with UTF-8 characters. Try typing locale at the command line
to see what locale you have installed.

Cheers,
Dave