http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130952 Bug ID: 1130952 Summary: Warn about non-utf8 locale during upgrade Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 Assignee: yast2-maintainers@suse.de Reporter: snwint@suse.com QA Contact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- [a follow-up to bug 1123478] People might have a non-UTF-8 locale in /etc/sysconfig/language::RC_LANG, e.g. "de_DE" with ISO-8859-1 or even weirder things like "de_DE@euro" using ISO-8859-15. The problem here is that yast might need to read system files in that encoding while it itself runs in UTF-8 during the upgrade process (in the installation system). Worse, not all system files might follow this locale setting and might stick to UTF-8 anyway. (YaST even copies system files between installation system and target system.) That's a hopeless mix of encodings and imho not really worth the trouble as UTF-8 is the default in almost all cases. But maybe yast could issue a warning when it detects this situation. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.