diff --git a/tests/greeting-1 b/tests/greeting-1
line changes: +3/-0
index 2283620..355b8f2
--- a/tests/greeting-1
+++ b/tests/greeting-1

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
 trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
 
+# No locale settings in this test, since we are using a fixed string;
+# nothing in the output should be locale-dependent.
+
 tmpfiles="greeting-test1.ok"
 cat <<EOF > greeting-test1.ok
 Nothing happens here.

diff --git a/tests/hello-1 b/tests/hello-1
line changes: +3/-0
index c1519e0..28dae4c
--- a/tests/hello-1
+++ b/tests/hello-1

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
 
+# We force the C locale here, since we are checking normal output,
+# which will be translated.
+
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_ALL=C
 LC_MESSAGES=

diff --git a/tests/traditional-1 b/tests/traditional-1
line changes: +3/-0
index 990785a..37edfbb
--- a/tests/traditional-1
+++ b/tests/traditional-1

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
 trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
 
+# We force the C locale here, since we are checking normal output,
+# which will be translated.
+
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_ALL=C
 LC_MESSAGES=