UTF-8 known issues

This page lists known issues with UTF-8 support in Puppet and Puppet Enterprise.

You can file bugs for issues you identify in our issue tracker.

PE console password must be ASCII

Supported web browsers do not accept non-ASCII characters in a login password field. In the pe.conf file, you can specify a non-ASCII password for the console admin password, but you will not be able to use the password to log in to the PE console in your browser.

Non-ASCII characters not supported in some names in the Puppet language

When naming the following items in Puppet, you must use ASCII characters:

• Environment names
• Variable names
• Class names
• Resource type names
• Module names
• Parameter names
• Tag names

See the Puppet language documentation for more information.

Some operating systems do not allow non-ASCII names for several types of resources

Some operating systems only allow ASCII characters in the title and namevar of certain resource types. For example, the user and group resources on RHEL and CentOS may only contain ASCII characters in title and namevar. For information about the user resource type, see Resource Type Reference.

Non-ASCII file names can cause errors when used in concat fragments

When using concat fragments, an error occurs if a source attribute is specified, and the source attribute points to a file name containing non-ASCII characters.

Non-ASCII file names can cause errors in the file resource

In a file resource, an error occurs if the source attribute is set to a file name containing non-ASCII characters.

Ruby can corrupt the path fact and environment variable on Windows

There is a bug in Ruby that can corrupt the environment variable names and values. This bug only causes corruption for some codepages.

The same bug can cause the path fact to be cached in a corrupt state.