[Container-tools] Default locale in container environments

[Nick Coghlan]

On 23 November 2015 at 16:23, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I found a suitable workaround for my particular use case:
https://github.com/fedora-cloud/docker-brew-fedora/issues/14#issuecomment-158869689

However, it would still be nice to pursue a better "out of the box"
experience here. I'm just not sure what the best way to tackle that
might be, and who would need to be involved.

Regards,
Nick.

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