On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:43:08PM +0200, Robert Neville wrote: > How do you intend to write the value back? You cannot pass arguments > to a process which contain invalid byte sequences in the current > codeset, thus you can't pass them to svccfg.
Not every program interprets string encodings. E.g., cat(1) (without options) doesn't.