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On Sep 5 21:16, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:Which is a problem if different users have different locale preferences, and also a problem to configure for non-experts.As you can see user/group always printed in UTF-8 and discard LC_ALL=cp1251.
$ LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 minttyThe problem is, what is the encoding of the /etc/passwd file itself? If it's UTF-8, it's UTF-8. If you want to use another encoding throughout, you would have to generate the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files in that other encoding as well.
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