Bug 63389

Summary:	localectl list-locales shows locale names in wrong encoding
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2013-04-10 15:43:36 UTC

$ rpm -q systemd
systemd-200-4.fc19.x86_64

$ localectl list-locales
...
bokmal
bokm<E5>l
...
fran<E7>ais
french
...

$ localectl list-locales | grep fran | iconv -f iso8859-1
français

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2013-04-10 21:21:46 UTC

Seems the data in the locale archive is in iso8859-1. This should probably be fixed in glibc. In the meantime, since those language names are aliases anyway I have now added code to simply skip all non-UTF8 language names.

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