[Freeipa-users] Re: shouldn't freeipa work by default?

[Harald Dunkel via FreeIPA-users]

On 2020-01-31 10:02, François Cami wrote:


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


As an admin I won't touch user settings, esp. not the locale variables.
All I can do is to provide the locales.

The point is to make freeipa work by default. It did (up to version 4.4,
AFAIU), and now it doesn't. Of course a user has to expect errors if
he or she actively uses UTF-8 without setting the locales accordingly,
but this is not the case here. And its surely not a problem that freeipa
is supposed to resolve.

The point is to show an error if something in freeipa goes wrong. Pro-
actively printing an error message and exit(1) on *ipa help* gives a
very bad first impression. Shouldn't be too difficult to add some code
like
test -z "$LC_CTYPE$LC_ALL" && export LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8

to get rid of the problem completely.


Regards
Harri
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[Freeipa-users] Re: shouldn't freeipa work by default?

[François Cami via FreeIPA-users]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:04 AM Harald Dunkel via FreeIPA-users
 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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