Anyone using non-UTF-8 locale(s)?

[Ian Pilcher]

I ran into a problem setting up an account for my wife with
system-config-users.

Her name includes a non-ASCII character (U+00E9).  I was able to use the
KDE character selector to enter the character, into the "Full Name" text
field, but when I pressed the "OK" button, it complained about a non-
ASCII character and refused to accept it.

Undaunted, I manually edited /etc/passwd, and everything appears to be
working just fine ... except system-config-users that is.  Instead of a
small E with an acute accent, it shows a capital A with a tilde followed
by a copyright symbol.  Clearly, it is interpreting the UTF-8
representation of U+00E9 (0xC3 0xA9) as some sort of 8-bit encoding
(although I'm not sure what encoding uses 0xA9 to represent a copyright
symbol).

I found the following in bugzilla:

     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74058

Comment #8 indicates that the ASCII-only restriction exists because
there's no such thing as a global locale on a UNIX system, and "trying
to deal with all these different encodings is just a nightmare."

I don't thing that my wife will care, however.

If everyone uses UTF-8, however, this isn't a problem.  So I'd like to
hear from anyone who's using a non-UTF-8 locale on Fedora Core 2.

Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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