[Yum-devel] [PATCH] locale, logging and dates

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jun 3 07:10:06 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:05 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:32:55PM +0200, Terje Rosten wrote:
> > Can this - always print dates in C locale patch - be accepted? It's
> > very hard to parse the logfile without it.
> 
> Wouldn't logging to syslog solve this?

1. I think logging to syslog is a good idea
2. syslog doesn't have a clue in its head how to handle unicode data or
MANY other types of encoding.

Try configuring your system to a chinese locale then read your syslog
reports on a system configured for english.

I've seen it, it sucks.

-sv







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