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.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/pager.c b/src/shared/pager.c
index 85f8fa5b39..3992f9c837 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);