[RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:10:16 +0100
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:52:01AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > 
> > > On Jan 24, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > After a bit of hacking on libedit it is now able to handle unicode inputs in a
> > > better way. At least good enough for /bin/sh to work normally in unicode
> > > environements.
> > > 
> > > Given that vt handles properly unicode inputs. I would like to propose that now
> > > we set the defaults locales on HEAD to en_US.UTF-8.
> > > 
> > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1467
> > 
> > Do recent vintage Terms and its decedents handle UTF-8? If so, then that?s likely
> > a reasonable default change.
> 
> From what I'm aware of all modern (including the good old xterm) do support
> UTF-8 correctly.
> > 

What about sc?  I don't use vt myself because the font is fugly.

> > Then again, I speak English, and the change does now explicitly specify a language
> > which before defaulted to English.
> 
> Maybe the bsdconfig can be tweak to allow the user to chose the default
> language?
> 

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Gary Jennejohn