Hi Michael, Michael wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 08:32:03PM +0200: > p.s. aka FYI: AIX also has the program locale(1), but that gives > a lot less information, imho. Sure it has, it's POSIX, and sure it provides less info than you have shown from the non-standard tool. But by definition, it is unclear what the output of a non-standard tool may mean. > And, maybe also a bit misleading - at least for the ignorant. I would > have expected UTF-8, but instead, it uses EN_US and a symbolic link. > > root@x064:[/data/prj/openbsd/mindrot/openssh-7.8.0.20]locale > LANG=EN_US > LC_COLLATE="EN_US" > LC_CTYPE="EN_US" > LC_MONETARY="EN_US" > LC_NUMERIC="EN_US" > LC_TIME="EN_US" > LC_MESSAGES="EN_US" > LC_ALL= > > While the default language locale(1) is: > > root@x066:[/data/prj/python/python3-3.8]locale > LANG=en_US > LC_COLLATE="en_US" > LC_CTYPE="en_US" > LC_MONETARY="en_US" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US" > LC_TIME="en_US" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US" > LC_ALL= Seems quite unusual indeed and hard to understand - but AIX is free to call their locales however they want. Neither locale names nor the return value from nl_langinfo(CODESET) are standardized. According to POSIX, they need contain elements relating to languages, territories, encodings, or even filenames, and the return value from nl_langinfo(CODESET) need not match the LC_CTYPE variable. AIX would be free to ask their users to specify "apples" or "oranges" in LC_CTYPE and yet report back "bananas" from nl_langinfo(CODESET). ;-) Yours, Ingo _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
