The first modules that should use the default system LANG are command and shell. Having them as C can give a lot of problems, especially if you are inserting something into a database which is UTF8.
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:06:24 PM UTC+2, Michael DeHaan wrote: > > It's done because various modules rely on parsing Unix commands and these > commands are difficult to parse in different languages. > > The proposal has been made that if LANG is set in the environment, we > possibly not set LANG, though we'll need to consider implications. > > It may be that only certain modules need to set the LANG to C, so it may > warrant reading history and audit specifically what changes may have to > occur. > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Alistair Bayley > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> We've tracked down a bug in our ansible-driven build to the LANG >> environment variable being explicitly set to "C". I'm wondering why this is >> done i.e. why modify it at all? Why not just use the environment of the >> user/account executing the ansible script? It was confusing, because >> running the same commands manually from the ansible user account did not >> reproduce the fault. >> >> I found this post: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/HD3yxPfsnzg >> which says that it is done to avoid encoding issues; which is ironic, as >> it has caused us encoding issues... >> >> We've set module_lang = en_NZ.UTF-8 in ansible.cfg for now. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/7aa2587f-423f-450c-87bd-d3b107d1978f%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/7aa2587f-423f-450c-87bd-d3b107d1978f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/681fa534-91c1-46dd-9976-f8315895e11a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
