login.conf --> UTF-8

Garrett Wollman wollman at hergotha.csail.mit.edu
Wed Apr 2 22:06:25 UTC 2014


In article <1396457629.2280.2.camel at powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com>,
sbruno at freebsd.org writes:

>I'd like to make this change to login.conf for default installs.
>
>This removes some amount of hackery in the ports system that is working
>around our lack of UTF-8 in the base.

I'm not sure what the connection is here.  Surely the ports system
runs with the locale of the user running "make" (which in my case is
going to be "C").  Any port that requires a specific locale to build
properly needs to be setting that locale explicitly.

-GAWollman



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