[Pkg-freeipa-devel] Bug#945587: ipa complains about a locale that is not set

[Harald Dunkel]

Package: freeipa-client
Version: 4.7.2-3

ipa complains about a locale that is not set:

% ipa user-show --all
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 | grep ANSI
% env | grep 1968
% env | egrep LANG\|LC
% locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
de_DE
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915 at euro
de_DE.utf8
de_DE at euro
deutsch
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.iso885915
en_US.utf8
german

If it knows that it works only with C.UTF-8, why doesnt' it simply
use this encoding, instead of relying upon the user to set $LC_ALL
or $LC_CTYPE, affecting other tools?


Regards
Harri