do not change console to non-unicode for LANG=C

If systemd-vconsole-setup was started with LANG=C (no locale.conf), then
it would set the console to non-unicode, which is not what we want.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/util.c b/src/shared/util.c
index 5827f6c7a1..5d6995d23f 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.c
+++ b/src/shared/util.c
@@ -5402,7 +5402,23 @@ bool is_locale_utf8(void) {
                 goto out;
         }
 
-        cached_answer = streq(set, "UTF-8");
+        if(streq(set, "UTF-8")) {
+                cached_answer = true;
+                goto out;
+        }
+
+        /* For LC_CTYPE=="C" return true,
+         * because CTYPE is effectly unset and
+         * everything defaults to UTF-8 nowadays. */
+
+        set = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL);
+        if (!set) {
+                cached_answer = true;
+                goto out;
+        }
+
+        cached_answer = streq(set, "C");
+
 out:
         return (bool)cached_answer;
 }