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Re: [ADSM-L] Unicode on UNIX

2010-05-19 04:33:36
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Unicode on UNIX
From: km <km AT GROGG DOT ORG>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 10:12:01 +0200
On 19/05, Michael Green wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:20 AM, km <km AT grogg DOT org> wrote:
>
> >> Please let me disagree with you. I think it's a wrong approach to
> >> change locale for the entire OS for the sake of backups only.
> >> Besides, I'm not fully aware of consequences of changing the locale
> >> system wide.
> >> Are you?
> >
> > You should not change it for the sole purpose of backups but rather the
> > system locale should (YMMV) match what is being used on the system. This is
> > very common in non english speaking countries and fully supported with UTF-8
> > since atleast the release of RHEL 4. So yes, I am.
>
> I think it's rather hard to predict the complications that may arise
> from changing locale. Some applications might exhibit adverse effects
> if locale is changed to something other than what the app was tested
> with. In many occasions it's not feasible to know what locale is
> required on a workstation. I work at an academic institution in a
> non-English speaking country. Among our researchers and students
> community we have many individuals who are fluent in more than two
> languages. For example we have a student from Russia who, besides his
> native tongue, is also fluent in English and Hebrew. It's not uncommon
> to find files on his computer disk that have names in any of these
> three languages. Which locale should I set for him? What locale should
> be set on an Novell iFolder file server with an NSS volume that has
> files in all kinds of languages? Do I need now to start managing
> locales for hundreds of servers and workstations in order to satisfy
> TSM's whims?

It is in this situation that you have a problem :)

> >> I challenge anyone to show that it works for him/her in any version of
> >> RHEL or SLES.
> >
> > The system i18n settings are sourced by rc.sysinit before either inittab or
> > any of the runlevel scripts are run so in theory everything should inherit
> > it correctly. I will check this tomorrow.
>
> I'll try that too.
> --
> Warm regards,
> Michael Green

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