Bug 101937
| Summary: | To UTF-8 or not :) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta | Reporter: | Richard Allen <ra> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | beta3 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-08-08 16:29:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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No, utf-8 is the supported locale. then why ship the ISO-8859-X locales at all ? |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 Description of problem: By default, all port RH 8 machines are using UTF-8. Here in Iceland we end up with LANG set to is_IS.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. This is all fine and dandy, but when we log into other machines (that are not using UTF-8) from our RedHat boxes or vice versa, things get messed up. This is particulary bad for Icelandic because we have 20 special symbols (counting both cases). This means most people change the system wide LANG to is_IS (thus not using UTF-8 but ISO-8859-1). This however opens up a whole new set of problems because all the .po files are in UTF-8 format. One of the most apparent problems is while the machine is booting or shutting down (initscripts). If LANG is is_IS the Icelandic chars in the translations dont print right. Cant we have two versions of the compiled .po files ? One in UTF-8 and another in ISO-8859-X ? System would go "Im using an UTF-8 locale, so Im going to use the UTF-8 .po files" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See the description Additional info: