incorrect display of characters in a non-English locale

[gosha]

All my proxmox-nodes used non-English locale:

# locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
...


In proxmox-web in some windows I see incorrect display of characters.
(see attached screenshots).






How I can fix this?

 

[manu]

Hi Gosha
We also use UTF-8 in the GUI html content so it should not be in theory a problem ( but that's the theory)

To narrow down the issue can you try these two things out:

if you enter "apt-cache show dmsetup" in a terminal, can you confirm that the russian description of the package is properly displayed ? ( i guess the content here is the field Description-en: from the apt package database.

If you select Russion language in the login window, do you see any improvement ?

 

[gosha]

Hi Gosha
We also use UTF-8 in the GUI html content so it should not be in theory a problem ( but that's the theory)

To narrow down the issue can you try these two things out:

if you enter "apt-cache show dmsetup" in a terminal, can you confirm that the russian description of the package is properly displayed ? ( i guess the content here is the field Description-en: from the apt package database.

Hi Manu!
The package description in Terminal program on my Mac via ssh to proxmox-nodes is properly for RU lang. (see picture)



in Console on Proxmox GUI this description - in English:

If you select Russion language in the login window, do you see any improvement ?

No improvements...




Best regards!
Gosha

 

[manu]

OK Thanks
Now when you're logged inside the server, what is the output of
pvesh get nodes/localhost/apt/update ?
( via ssh and via the web shell)

Where did your set your default locale ? User environement (.bashrc and the like ) or /etc/default/locale ?

I think when you login from your OSX host, ssh will pass by default the LC_env from your the env where is running your ssh client.
But when you login root over the webconsole, .bashrc and /etc/default/locale are not used, which explains the default (C) locale and messages in english.

 

[gosha]

OK Thanks
Now when you're logged inside the server, what is the output of
pvesh get nodes/localhost/apt/update ?
( via ssh and via the web shell)

via ssh:



via web shell for RU lang GUI:



via web shell for EN lang GUI:

Where did your set your default locale ? User environement (.bashrc and the like ) or /etc/default/locale ?

I installed Proxmox VE 3.x via Debian install method (problem with incorrect characters was missing). After release 4.0 I updated my cluster to 4.0.
And locale was set during Debian installation. And user environment in /etc/default/locale:

I think when you login from your OSX host, ssh will pass by default the LC_env from your the env where is running your ssh client.
But when you login root over the webconsole, .bashrc and /etc/default/locale are not used, which explains the default (C) locale and messages in english.

May be...
Locale on my Mac:

Mac-mini:~ gosha$ locale
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


--
Best regards!
Gosha