From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:17:14 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: pager: set $LESSCHARSET when we output UTF8 chars
X-Git-Tag: v226.4~1^2~106
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3a8f9a1fefb6e28a09c883de2e639eb2f40f6ba7

pager: set $LESSCHARSET when we output UTF8 chars

This way we can be sure that less has the same idea of the terminal as
we do.

This solves issues in systems that have locale uninitalized, where
systemd would output UTF-8 but less wouldn't allow it and show them as
control characters.
---

diff --git a/src/shared/pager.c b/src/shared/pager.c
index 1c1cf1605..7818d0273 100644
--- a/src/shared/pager.c
+++ b/src/shared/pager.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ int pager_open(bool jump_to_end) {
 
         /* In the child start the pager */
         if (pager_pid == 0) {
-                const char* less_opts;
+                const char* less_opts, *less_charset;
 
                 (void) reset_all_signal_handlers();
                 (void) reset_signal_mask();
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ int pager_open(bool jump_to_end) {
                 dup2(fd[0], STDIN_FILENO);
                 safe_close_pair(fd);
 
+                /* Initialize a good set of less options */
                 less_opts = getenv("SYSTEMD_LESS");
                 if (!less_opts)
                         less_opts = "FRSXMK";
@@ -97,6 +98,15 @@ int pager_open(bool jump_to_end) {
                         less_opts = strjoina(less_opts, " +G");
                 setenv("LESS", less_opts, 1);
 
+                /* Initialize a good charset for less. This is
+                 * particularly important if we output UTF-8
+                 * characters. */
+                less_charset = getenv("SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET");
+                if (!less_charset && is_locale_utf8())
+                        less_charset = "utf-8";
+                if (less_charset)
+                        setenv("LESSCHARSET", less_charset, 1);
+
                 /* Make sure the pager goes away when the parent dies */
                 if (prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGTERM) < 0)
                         _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);