1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tests/fmt/basic b/tests/fmt/basic
index 66f79cc04..7450a94ef 100755
--- a/tests/fmt/basic
+++ b/tests/fmt/basic
@@ -11,15 +11,18 @@ case "$PERL" in
   ;;
 esac
 
+# Export this to avoid hassles when run in a UTF-8 locale,
+# since we use 8-bit characters below, and those values are
+# interpolated into strings (to perform substitution) in Fetish.pm.
+LC_ALL=C
+export LC_ALL
+
 exec $PERL -w -I$srcdir/.. -MFetish -- - <<\EOF
 require 5.003;
 use strict;
 
 (my $program_name = $0) =~ s|.*/||;
 
-# Turn off localisation of executable's ouput.
-@ENV{qw(LANGUAGE LANG LC_ALL)} = ('C') x 3;
-
 my @Tests =
     (
      ['8-bit-pfx', qw (-p 'į'),