Bug#892989: weird chars found in dpkg output

[Michael Biebl]

Am 16.03.2018 um 08:45 schrieb Harald Dunkel:
> On 03/15/18 18:46, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>
>> With a UTF-8 locale (which you really should enable), systemctl will use
>> '→', for a non-UTF8 locale, systemctl will fall back to '->'
>>
>>
> 
> Sorry to say, but thats ridiculous. Shouldn't it work no matter
> what? Ain't that "if locale == xxx" just asking for troubles?

No, I don't think it's ridiculous at all to use Unicode in 2018. The
ASCII fallback is only to be super-nice to people still refusing to use
a UTF-8 locale.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/basic/locale-util.c#L370
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