[systemd-devel] Locale setup for non-shells

[Nikolai Kondrashov]

On 05/23/2017 11:42 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 22.05.17 19:36, Nikolai Kondrashov (Nikolai.Kondrashov at redhat.com) wrote:
>> I'm talking about logins on console now, so I assume the service in question,
>> technically, is systemd-logind. However, I found out that it's working OK, and
>> the real problem is these two pieces in /lib/systemd/system/getty at .service:
>>
>>     # Unset locale for the console getty since the console has problems
>>     # displaying some internationalized messages.
>>     Environment=LANG= LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE= LC_NUMERIC= LC_TIME= LC_COLLATE= LC_MONETARY= LC_MESSAGES= LC_PAPER= LC_NAME= LC_ADDRESS= LC_TELEPHONE= LC_MEASUREMENT= LC_IDENTIFICATION=
>>
>> and
>>
>>     ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --noclear %I $TERM
>>
>> What the first one does is obvious, and the second needs to be modified to
>> make login preserve the environment. Like this:
>>
>>     ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o "-p -- \u" --noclear %I $TERM
>>
>> Do you think the two pieces above can be changed to let the locale environment
>> through?
>
> Yes, I think that would make sense to do. Could you file an issue
> asking for that on systemd github? (or even better: a PR implementing
> it!)
>
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/new

Done:

     https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6023

Thanks, Lennart!

Nick