Re: Default locale policy
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:36:37PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I think this is what we should expect under UTF-8 encoding:
> Console and daemon should run under:
> --> For en_* and all non-latain character countrues:
> en_US.UTF-8
> --> For non-english latain character countries may choose:
> *.UTF-8 (Fr, De, It,...) but I think en_US.UTF-8 is OK too.
> Then X applications should run under locale:
> *.UTF-8
> I see 2 critical files:
> /etc/environment
> /etc/default/locale
> I think changing as following will help:
> | atd:auth required pam_env.so
> | cron:auth required pam_env.so
> | gdm:auth required pam_env.so read_env=1
> | gdm:auth required pam_env.so read_env=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
> | gdm-autologin:auth required pam_env.so read_env=1
> | gdm-autologin:auth required pam_env.so read_env=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
> | login:session required pam_env.so readenv=1
> | ssh:auth required pam_env.so # [1]
> | ssh:# auth required pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale
> | su:session required pam_env.so readenv=1
> /etc/environment LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> /etc/default/locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
> This way we use /etc/default/locale for GDM while others use default
> /etc/environment. (Thanks to recent bug #361090 fix which some people
> oppose and reopened bug.)
No, this is inappropriate. The reason /etc/default/locale was split from
/etc/environment is because /etc/environment is always intended to be used
by (and owned by) PAM, but /etc/default/locale is intended as a
general-purpose file, guaranteed to be parseable as a simple shell
assignment, that tells applications what the "system" locale is.
If there is a need for a different "system" locale between the console and
X, then some other method would need to be devised. Please do not attempt
to overload the existing files for this.
Thanks,
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