[rrd-developers] UTF-8 and pango ... again

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Sebastian,

Today Sebastian Harl wrote:

> > > >    - save LANG
> > > >    - set LANG=LC_TIME
> > > >    - call pango for x-axis
> > > >    - restore LANG
>
> I agree that documenting the need to have a properly set up environment
> would be a good thing (e.g. if rrdtool is called from a [shell-]script,
> that script has to be encoded according to the locale settings when
> running the script).

want to suggest some language for the pods ?

> However, I think it's valid to use different
> settings for LC_TIME than for e.g. LANG, so imho that should be handled
> in RRDtool.

which brings back my initial idea ... I wonder though if this
ultimately ideal since it is sort of magic and if LC_TIME was set
to the right encoding it would not be neccessary ...

cheers
tobi
>

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