[Git][haskell-team/DHG_packages][sten] Document that a local must be configured for dht to not fail.

[Nicholas D Steeves (@sten)]

Nicholas D Steeves pushed to branch sten at Debian Haskell Group / DHG_packages


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f323f341 by Nicholas D Steeves at 2026-04-23T18:23:11-04:00
Document that a local must be configured for dht to not fail.

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README.md
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 All tools are under the `dht` prefix, and it has a manpage (`man dht`) or at
 <file:///usr/share/doc/pkg-haskell-tools/dht.html>.
 
+Please note that various functions of `dht` will fail when a UTF-8 locale has
+not been configured; This means it will fail in most schroots, by default, and
+in some containers. When the LANG and/or LC_ALL environment variable does not
+contain "UTF-8", this indicates that UTF-8 has probably not been configured.
+It is then necessary to `sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales`.
+
 
 Useful general tools
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