On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:20 AM, km <k...@grogg.org> wrote: >> Please let me disagree with you. I think it's a wrong approach to >> change locale for the entire OS for the sake of backups only. >> Besides, I'm not fully aware of consequences of changing the locale >> system wide. >> Are you? > > You should not change it for the sole purpose of backups but rather the > system locale should (YMMV) match what is being used on the system. This is > very common in non english speaking countries and fully supported with UTF-8 > since atleast the release of RHEL 4. So yes, I am.
I think it's rather hard to predict the complications that may arise from changing locale. Some applications might exhibit adverse effects if locale is changed to something other than what the app was tested with. In many occasions it's not feasible to know what locale is required on a workstation. I work at an academic institution in a non-English speaking country. Among our researchers and students community we have many individuals who are fluent in more than two languages. For example we have a student from Russia who, besides his native tongue, is also fluent in English and Hebrew. It's not uncommon to find files on his computer disk that have names in any of these three languages. Which locale should I set for him? What locale should be set on an Novell iFolder file server with an NSS volume that has files in all kinds of languages? Do I need now to start managing locales for hundreds of servers and workstations in order to satisfy TSM's whims? >> I challenge anyone to show that it works for him/her in any version of >> RHEL or SLES. > > The system i18n settings are sourced by rc.sysinit before either inittab or > any of the runlevel scripts are run so in theory everything should inherit > it correctly. I will check this tomorrow. I'll try that too. -- Warm regards, Michael Green
