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List:       rpmorg-list
Subject:    Re: rpm query output format question ...
From:       Dhananjay Bhandari <bhandari_dhananjay () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2006-02-02 21:31:28
Message-ID: 20060202213128.39987.qmail () web33512 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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Oh, so then how can I make sense out of what I am reading from
"rpm -qia" command when I do not have control over locale setting.

What do you suggest ?

Because, I just now tried setting locale to ja_JP.eucjp, and rpm did not output
in utf-8 format.

Regards.
--- Jeff Johnson <n3npq.jbj@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Dhananjay Bhandari wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >   I am trying to use rpm package on different locales.
> >   I have noticed that rpm uses UTF-8 format to output query result,  
> > but how can
> > I be sure that irrespective of locale or default charset encoding  
> > set, rpm will
> > always output query results in UTF-8 form.
> >   I have to process the data output by rpm, hence if I mess up in  
> > understanding
> > the encoding format rpm has used, then data gets garbled.
> >
> 
> rpm data is not guaranteed to be encoded in any format.
> 
> rpm-4.4.4 has an implementation that imposes utf-8 encoding for  
> changelogs.
> 
> If that conversion to utf-8 is successful, then utf-8 encoding will  
> be imposed on all string data
> within rpm headers.
> 
> But deploying a version of rpm that imposes utf-8 encoding is almost  
> certainly going to take years and years.
> 
> 73 de Jeff
> 
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