Rüdiger Sonderfeld fa1cec1037 update-users-groups.pl: Use UTF-8 instead of latin1. ...

Perl seems to write the file in latin1 independent of the actual input
encoding.  This can corrupt the "description" field of /etc/passwd.  By
setting "binmode" to ":utf8" Perl can be forced to write UTF-8.  Ideally
the program would simply read/write the fields by value without any
changes in encoding.  However, assuming/enforcing UTF-8 is a lot better
than using an obsolete coding like latin1.

2014-11-08 19:25:17 +01:00

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