Re: Shadow package translations
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:28:27PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > text, but that's somehow uncool ;) Is there any clear policy,
> > whether UTF-8 is allowed/usable in /etc/passwd?
> The only real issue is that there's no defined standard for the
> encoding of /etc/passwd, so the only globally safe encoding is
> ASCII. However, this is no reason to discourage local use of other
> charsets; I know many localized sites use localized gecos in their
> passwd files.
Yeah, _local_ use.... That's exactly the problem, as long as we don't
know which encoding will be used by default. Enforcing UTF-8 as the
system encoding, encouraging users to use another one from .bashrc ?
Any other solutions? If the installation is run in say ru_RU.KOI8 and
then the system is switched to UTF-8 because there is no option to
select this at the installation stage, /etc/passwd will be screwed
until recoded.....
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Nikolai Prokoschenko
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