[Container-tools] Default locale in container environments

[Nick Coghlan]

On 23 November 2015 at 16:10, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Posting here since this is a distro-independent problem, other
> changes in Fedora just make it most obvious there)
>
> In Fedora 23, a range of packages and utilities that previously ran
> under Python 2 have moved over to running under Python 3.
>
> This has exacerbated the known problem with containers defaulting to
> the ASCII centric C locale:
> https://github.com/fedora-cloud/docker-brew-fedora/issues/14
>
> Is there a recommended approach to building container images which
> have a sensibly set locale for all environments running on that image,
> whether via docker run or docker exec?

Sorry, I also meant to link to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094#c17, which suggests
defaulting to C.UTF-8 may be easier in Fedora 24+.

However, more Unicode friendly locales like en_US-UTF-8 exist in the
current cloud images, they're just not configured by default in the
absence of systemd running inside the container.

Regards,
Nick.

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