Hi, Has anyone figured this out I am having the same problem. I have changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n and removed UTF-8. Has anyone else encountered this problem. Regards, Keith -------- "The linuX Files -- The Source is Out There." -------- ----- Original Message ----- From: <redhat-devel-list at redhat.com (Dumas Patrice)> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 12:26 AM Subject: su -c adds ESC%G > Hi, > > On redhat 8.0. This issue has certainly to do with utf-8. I don't know > where to report it in bugzilla, as it may be a su issue, a glibc issue, > a kernel issue ? or even a non issue (but I doubt it). > > I have glibc-2.2.93-5 kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0 sh-utils-2.0.12-3 > > When on a tty I do > $su - snfs -c "echo nothing" > /root/test > > in /root/test, I have > ESC%Gnothing > The same happen in boot scripts but not on xterms. (note that I don't run X > as root, but I do a su - to root before doing my tests). > > I think that ESC%G is the escape sequence telling the console to go in > utf-8 mode or the like. I don't have this issue on an xterm > > Another similar test: > $(set -x;test=`su - snfs -c "echo nothing"`; echo $test) 2>/root/set_test > in /root/set_test, there is: > + set -x > ++ su - snfs -c 'echo nothing' > + test=ESC%Gnothing > + echo $'\E%Gnothing' > > locale gives > LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > To work around those issues, I changed to su snfs instead of su - snfs, but > this might be an issue to solve. > > Pat > > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
