Re: rpm query output format question ...

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

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