On 19/05, Michael Green wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:20 AM, km <k...@grogg.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