[Bug 31785] New: Add more languages and locales to the core tests

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31785

Bug #: 31785
           Summary: Add more languages and locales to the core tests
           Product: Wine-Testbot
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

With recent versions of Windows there is:
 * The Display Language which decides what language the GUI is in.
 * The Locale which decides most everything else: date and number format,
sorting, etc.
Wine's conformance tests are impacted by both of these settings and it's often
interesting to have non-matching settings to spot issues: tests impacted by the
locale must be skipped based on the locale, not on the display language.

The old Wine TestBot ran the tests on VMs with a couple of different languages
and locales but there's a desire to expand this list. In particular testing
some right-to-left and non-latin languages and with some indic scripts would be
useful.

[Bug 31785] Add more languages and locales to the core tests

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31785

--- Comment #1 from François Gouget  2012-09-24 14:02:00 CDT ---
My plan is to base this on Windows 7 Ultimate: all 35 supported languages can
be installed. So we could have one VM snapshot per language/locale (see bug
31784) in the set of extra VMs.

However we need to determine which language/locale configurations to include in
the set of base VMs as running every patch in all 35 configurations would
likely be too long.

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--- Comment #2 from François Gouget  2013-02-21 02:48:46 CST ---
See also this wine-devel discussion:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2013-February/098899.html

[Bug 31785] Add more languages and locales to the core tests

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31785

--- Comment #3 from François Gouget  ---
We now have two Windows Ultimate VMs: Vista and Windows 7. One is running the
tests in a right-to-left locale (Hebrew) and the other in a double-byte
language (Japanese). So we have some coverage.

It does seem though that Chinese and particularly Korean get different failures
from Japanese so an extra test environment may be useful. Also one VM was
recently switched from Arabic to Hebrew as the latter seemed to have more
failures but it's possible failures will now accumulate in Arabic.

[Bug 31785] Add more languages and locales to the core tests

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31785

--- Comment #4 from François Gouget  ---
For the usp10 tests it would be nice to have Thai, Tibetan, a Deseret script
language, a Sinhala script language and Canadian Aboriginal syllabic language.
That's in addition to Japanese, Chinese, a Devanagari script language, Arabic
and Hebrew which we already have.

Script support evolved a lot in Windows 7 and later versions so it's not very
useful to have those in Windows Vista. But it's possible to add many languages
in Windows 10 so that would be a good place to add them.