#213745: dictd doesn't run: Suggestion how to fix this issue

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

severity 213745 grave
thanks

First of all, I consider this bug RC since it causes some breakage for 
users. There should be a solution that doesn't require manual 
intervention of the user installing dictd.


This seems to be a complicated problem:
- dictd databases should be UTF-8 encoded
- if there's at least one UTF-8 encoded database dictd needs to be
  started with the --locale option
- the --locale option of dictd requires that this locale is available on 
  the system

@glibc maintainers:
Is there a recommended solution?
One possible solution would be to create an /etc/locales directory where 
packages could put files specifying locales they require and these 
locales are built additionally to the ones specified in /etc/locale.gen .

cu
Adrian

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