[katello-devel] Setting a user's preferred locale via cli

[Tomas Strachota]

On 08/02/2012 02:06 PM, Tom McKay wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lukas Zapletal" <lzap at redhat.com>
>> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
>> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 4:30:23 AM
>> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Setting a user's preferred locale via cli
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:19:47PM -0700, Michael McCune wrote:
>>> no way todo it now but it wouldn't be that hard to add.  Just file
>>> an RFE and we can triage it appropriately.  patches happily
>>> accepted
>>> :)
>>>
>>
>> Well, why to introduce new option when you can do this in UNIX:
>>
>> LC_ALL=fr katello environment list
>>
>> What CLI does it sends this locale to the server so the Katello
>> server
>> returns all data in French (well not data but all constants there).
>> It should also switch over to French in this case (for all messages
>> and
>> column names for example - CLI is localized of course).
>>
>> You have discovered a bug, Og. While it should work, what we do in
>> our
>> source code base is we always get system's default locale (in my case
>> English). So we do not take user's setting into effect.
>>
>> So I filed new bug:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845198
>>
>> We will not introduce new option you recommend (if you filed a RFE
>> please close it), but we will rather fix this one. Then it should
>> work
>> the usual way (e.g. if I as Czech ssh into a box with English system
>> locale, ssh in the default configuration will switch my environment
>> to
>> Czech, so Katello CLI will work in Czech for me).
>>
>> Nice find, especially when your default one is English (I guess :-)
>>
>> LZ
>>
>> --
>> Later,
>>
>>   Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
>>   #katello #systemengine
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>
> Disagree that this is not worth a RFE. Just like in the UI, where the user may override the default browser locale, a --locale option would allow the user to override the systems default locale. I am voting for the RFE.
>

I vote for using LC_ALL. The functionality is in fact the same so I'd 
prefer to be unix-consistent.

T.