[packagekit] Unicode error with the yum backend

[S.Çağlar Onur]

04 Şub 2008 Pts tarihinde, Richard Hughes şunları yazmıştı: 
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 07:48 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > I guess we have to switch the daemon to en_US.UTF-8 to get this stuff
> > back up the stack. Is this a sane idea?
> 
	> What about something quick and nasty like this:
> 
> diff --git a/src/pk-main.c b/src/pk-main.c
[...]
> +       /* we need this for UTF8" */
> +       setlocale (LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8");

I do not like that solution, although i'm not tested this one, at first look these problems may occur;

* First off all en_US.UTF-8 may not available on system (ex. Pardus only provides tr_TR.UTF-8 for Turkish installations, en_US-UTF-8 for English etc. and provides others as a seperate packages)
* en_US.UTF-8 breaks case conversion rules of Turkic languages (Turkish has 4 letter "I"s. English has only two, a lowercase dotted i and an 
uppercase dotless I. Turkish has lowercase and uppercase forms of both dotted  and dotless I. So tolower(I) != i and toupper(i) != I for us.)
* Running a daemon in other than C locale is not a common so i'm not sure its a good thing or not

Cheers
-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar at pardus.org.tr>
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