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
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