Hi, On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:04 AM Harald Dunkel via FreeIPA-users <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > *ipa help topics* gives me > > # ipa help topics > ipa: ERROR: System encoding must be UTF-8, 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' is not supported. > Set LC_ALL="C.UTF-8", or LC_ALL="" and LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8". > # env | egrep LANG\|LC > # echo $? > 1 > > Shouldn't the command line interface work by default? Why not silently > assume UTF-8 and continue?
We'd rather fail early and print that warning which lets the admin fix the issue. You can see the rationale in the upstream ticket: https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/5887 François > Printing a warning might be OK. > > > Regards > Harri > _______________________________________________ > FreeIPA-users mailing list -- freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org > To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-users-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org _______________________________________________ FreeIPA-users mailing list -- freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-users-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org