LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 ls -l encoding problem.

[Thomas Wolff]

  Am 06.09.2010 11:07, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Sep  5 21:16, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>> As you can see user/group always printed in UTF-8
>> and discard LC_ALL=cp1251.
>>
>>    $ LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 mintty
> The problem is, what is the encoding of the /etc/passwd file itself?
> If it's UTF-8, it's UTF-8.  If you want to use another encoding
> throughout, you would have to generate the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> files in that other encoding as well.
Which is a problem if different users have different locale preferences, 
and also a problem to configure for non-experts.
What about making the functions that access user/group information aware 
of this, i.e. interpreting the files as UTF-8 and interpreting 
parameters/results according to current locale?
(getpwuid, getpwnam, getlogin, ...)

Thomas

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