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I spend a lot of my time ssh
ed into various machines, all of which are different (some are embedded, some run Linux, some run BSD, &c.). On my own local machines, however, i use OS X, which of course has a userland based on BSD. My locale on those machines is set to en_GB.UTF-8, which is one of the available options:
% echo `sw_vers`
ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.8.2 BuildVersion: 12C60
% locale -a | grep -i 'en_gb.utf'
en_GB.UTF-8
Several of the more-capable Linux systems i use appear to have an equivalent option, but i note that on Linux the name is slightly different:
% lsb_release -d
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze)
% locale -a | grep -i 'en_gb.utf'
en_GB.utf8
This makes me wonder: When i ssh
into a Linux machine from my Mac, and it forwards all of my LC_*
variables with that 'UTF-8' suffix, does that Linux machine even understand what is being asked of it? Or is it just falling back to some other locale?
edit: Here is an example of what i'm referring to:
% ssh -v odin
...
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LC_ALL = en_GB.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LC_COLLATE = en_GB.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LC_CTYPE = en_GB.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LC_MESSAGES = en_GB.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LC_MONETARY = en_GB.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LC_NUMERIC = en_GB.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LC_TIME = en_GB.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LANG = en_GB.UTF-8
odin:~ % locale | tail -1 # locale is set to .UTF-8 without error...
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
odin:~ % locale -a | grep 'en_GB.UTF-8' # ... even though .UTF-8 isn't an option
odin:~ %
In either case, what is the mechanism behind its behaviour, and is it dependent on any particular set-up (e.g., will i see the same behaviour on a BusyBox-based system as on a GNU-based one)?
explanation there: https://superuser.com/questions/999133/differences-between-en-us-utf8-and-en-us-utf-8 (answer from grawity). So from BSD to Linux there's no problem. From Linux (if it defines utf8 instead of UTF-8) to BSD, there might be a problem.
– A.B – 2017-10-14T20:03:57.353