[issue4388] test_cmd_line fails on MacOS X

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I don't like this much, though.  For one thing, I don't have any reason 
> to believe that the particular locale "en_US.UTF-8" will be supported on 
> any given installation of OS X.

I'm opposed to this patch for the same reason.

> Anyone have any better suggestions?

We should manually decode the command line arguments with UTF-8 on OSX;
this will require yet another UTF-8 implementation (this time to
wchar_t).

Regards,
Martin

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