Oh, so then how can I make sense out of what I am reading from "rpm -qia" command when I do not have control over locale setting. What do you suggest ? Because, I just now tried setting locale to ja_JP.eucjp, and rpm did not output in utf-8 format. Regards. --- Jeff Johnson <n3npq.jbj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Dhananjay Bhandari wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to use rpm package on different locales. > > I have noticed that rpm uses UTF-8 format to output query result, > > but how can > > I be sure that irrespective of locale or default charset encoding > > set, rpm will > > always output query results in UTF-8 form. > > I have to process the data output by rpm, hence if I mess up in > > understanding > > the encoding format rpm has used, then data gets garbled. > > > > rpm data is not guaranteed to be encoded in any format. > > rpm-4.4.4 has an implementation that imposes utf-8 encoding for > changelogs. > > If that conversion to utf-8 is successful, then utf-8 encoding will > be imposed on all string data > within rpm headers. > > But deploying a version of rpm that imposes utf-8 encoding is almost > certainly going to take years and years. > > 73 de Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
