Bug 331167 – sys-apps/logwatch should send mail in system locale(for example in UTF-8), but not in C

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Sergey Popov 2010-08-04 07:28:44 UTC]

logwatch always send mail reports in locale C and (as supposed by author of logwatch) only those scripts who support reports in other locales use real system locale.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install sys-apps/logwatch and configure sendmail/ssmtp/whatever to send mails
2. send report

Actual Results:  
e-mail is sent in default C locale(not in ru_RU.UTF-8 in my case)

Expected Results:  
e-mail should be sent in system locale(in my case - ru_RU.UTF-8)

This is not critical bug, BUT there some scripts(filesystem usage) that do not use $REAL_LANG variable, but can works well with system locale. Though i think that there must be a kind of patch for that situation. I upload my patch to logwatch.pl, it is works for me well, but it is locale-specific(ru_RU.UTF-8) and should be updated to be more general.

[Comment 1 Sergey Popov 2010-08-04 07:30:27 UTC]

Created attachment 241377 [details, diff]
patch for logwatch to send reports in UTF-8

As i said early this patch works for me well, but it should be updated. Also to make this patch work you must set variable "Print = No" in logwatch.conf

[Comment 2 Michael Weber (RETIRED) 2010-08-06 09:01:51 UTC]

Does upstream know about this?

[Comment 3 Sergey Popov 2010-08-06 09:04:48 UTC]

Yes they know about this problem, but upstream policy is "if script does not support $REAL_LANG variable, then it must send data only in C locale". But how can such support be in simple 'df -hs'? I think that this is weird...

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2010-08-07 21:51:32 UTC]

sounds like a debate to be had with the logwatch guys

[Comment 5 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2010-09-19 09:21:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> sounds like a debate to be had with the logwatch guys

agreed