The LC_ALL=C assignments in the "idna" system test, which were only
meant to affect a certain subset of checks, in fact persist throughout
all the subsequent checks in that system test. That affects the test's
behavior and is misleading.
When the "VARIABLE=value command ..." syntax is used in a shell script,
in order for the variable assignment to only apply to "command", the
latter must be an external binary; otherwise, the VARIABLE=value
assignment persists for all subsequent commands in a script:
$ cat foo.sh
#!/bin/sh
foo() {
/bin/sh bar.sh
}
BAR="baz0"
BAR="baz1" /bin/sh bar.sh
echo "foo: BAR=${BAR}"
BAR="baz2" foo
echo "foo: BAR=${BAR}"
$ cat bar.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "bar: BAR=${BAR}"
$ /bin/sh foo.sh
bar: BAR=baz1
foo: BAR=baz0
bar: BAR=baz2
foo: BAR=baz2
$
Fix by saving the value of LC_ALL before the relevant set of checks in
the "idna" system test, restoring it afterwards, and dropping the
"LC_ALL=C command ..." syntax.
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