xoa, xoa-updater ignore LC variables

MajorTom

Hello.
Seems that xoa and xoa-updater commands ignore LC variables.

With (probably a default one) UTF8 set I got unreadable (UTF8?) characters. This is already expected ;-(

xoa:~$ export LC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
xoa:~$
xoa:~$ xoa check
â Node version
â xo-server config syntax
â Disk space for /var
â Disk space for /
â XOA version
â Native SMB support
â Appliance registration
â npm version
â Internet connectivity
xoa:~$
xoa:~$ xoa-updater
stable channel selected.

â
 š All up to date

Similar unreadable stuff with systemctl, not a surprise:

xoa:~$ systemctl status xoa-updater.service
â xoa-updater.service - XOA Updater
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/xoa-updater.service; enabled; vendor pres
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-05-31 03:24:14 CEST; 14h ago
 Main PID: 489 (node)
    Tasks: 10 (limit: 19660)
   CGroup: /system.slice/xoa-updater.service
           ââ489 node /usr/local/bin/xoa-updater-start

Now I set clean classical variables:

xoa:~$ export LC=C LC_CTYPE=C LC_ALL=C

Systemctl behaves properly, that is it uses * not â and `- not ââ:

xoa:~$ systemctl status xoa-updater.service
* xoa-updater.service - XOA Updater
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/xoa-updater.service; enabled; vendor pres
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-05-31 03:24:14 CEST; 14h ago
 Main PID: 489 (node)
    Tasks: 10 (limit: 19660)
   CGroup: /system.slice/xoa-updater.service
           `-489 node /usr/local/bin/xoa-updater-start

But xoa and xoa-updater - not!

xoa:~$ xoa check
â Node version
â xo-server config syntax
â Disk space for /var
â Disk space for /
â XOA version
â Appliance registration
â Native SMB support
â npm version
â Internet connectivity
xoa:~$
xoa:~$ xoa-updater
stable channel selected.

â
 š All up to date

That is, still unreadable stuff.

XOA is stable channel, up-to-date.

Could it be corrected? Thanks!

olivierlambert

Pinging @julien-f

julien-f

Indeed, this is not supported.

Why do need this?
It should work correctly in an XOA.

MajorTom

@julien-f said in xoa, xoa-updater ignore LC variables:

Indeed, this is not supported.

Why do need this?

To have readable characters

julien-f

You should have readable characters by default…

What OS and terminal emulator are you using?
What is your local locale?

MajorTom

@julien-f I have a few "hops" (systems that I must log into) on the way to the destination.

AFAIK, software should obey LC to enable proper displaying in similar situations, among others

julien-f

I think it's pretty standard in C (and well supported), but I've never seen any Node CLIs handling this.

Of course, with some effort, we could fix this but, as it it's a very minor issue and you're the only one to have reported, it's very low priority for us.

If/when this library support this, we'll be happy to fix it.

MajorTom

@julien-f said in xoa, xoa-updater ignore LC variables:

I think it's pretty standard in C (and well supported), but I've never seen any Node CLIs handling this.

Though this locale is called C, it's not limited to C language.
"C" locale is an alias to POSIX locale.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html

7.2 POSIX Locale

Conforming systems shall provide a POSIX locale, also known as the C locale

julien-f

Yes, I know this is not exclusive to C, but there are some facilities to handle this, that are, as far as I know, not available in Node.