On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:28:27PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > text, but that's somehow uncool ;) Is there any clear policy, > > whether UTF-8 is allowed/usable in /etc/passwd? > The only real issue is that there's no defined standard for the > encoding of /etc/passwd, so the only globally safe encoding is > ASCII. However, this is no reason to discourage local use of other > charsets; I know many localized sites use localized gecos in their > passwd files.
Yeah, _local_ use.... That's exactly the problem, as long as we don't know which encoding will be used by default. Enforcing UTF-8 as the system encoding, encouraging users to use another one from .bashrc ? Any other solutions? If the installation is run in say ru_RU.KOI8 and then the system is switched to UTF-8 because there is no option to select this at the installation stage, /etc/passwd will be screwed until recoded..... -- Nikolai Prokoschenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
