The document (and it's translations) related to this bug report (compare URL) refers to setting LC_* values to locale de_DE.UTF-8. While this works at first sight, random strage errors occure. The reason is that the locale setting should *not* read de_DE.UTF-8 but de_DE.utf8! Please correct. Many greets and thanks, Hans-Jürgen PS. i don't know how to but if this thingy has been a wiki or something editable like that i'd have corrected this issue by myself ;) Reproducible: Always
can you give an example of one "random failure" to reproduce, please?
(In reply to comment #1) > can you give an example of one "random failure" to reproduce, please? > "ramdom failures" were logins to different machines via ssh where sometimes some characters (german umlauts) didn't work. Further investigation showed that this was not a local issue but a remote one (locale of remote machine not configured correctly). Please excuse and don't change the documentation the way i suggested before. I'd like to suggest an improvement for the mentioned documentation: * add de_DE.UTF-8 to "Code Listing 3.7: Adding locales to /etc/locale.gen" (mine contained de_DE.utf8 which lead me to the wrong assumption that it *must* be de_DE.utf8) * Add a note that "the output of 'locale -a' shows utf8 instead of UTF-8" at the end of section 3 near "You can verify that your selected locales are available by running locale -a."
Works for me as-is. No need to note any differences from one locale to the other. They work just fine no matter how you put 'em in.
