Florian Weimer wrote: > I tried to bring up this topic on the OpenSSH list to get some > cross-distribution consensus, but the discussion didn't actually go > anywhere: > > Phasing out forwarding of locale settings > > <https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2021-September/03958... > > I think Fedora should do this unilaterally, dropping the downstream > additions that enable locale forwarding in both the default client and > server configurations. If we do that, the OpenSSH server will use the > locale as configured with localectl for new interactive and > non-interactive sessions, which is C.UTF-8 in many cases. At least > that's what my testing on Fedora 33 suggests. > > Comments?
We have a big problem that nobody speaks about: MacOS. The default and correct value of LC_CTYPE on MacOS is "UTF-8", but this is not a valid Linux locale string. And MacOS sends this by default - so, given the popularity of MacOS, the only sensible thing to do for Linux is not to accept locale-related environment variables. Or at least, filter out known bad values somewhere, but that would be a lot of fragile distribution-specific logic that I would rather not see. See more details on this issue at https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2021-September/039618.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
