UTF-8 by default?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:36:13PM +0200, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin skrev:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:47:45AM -0230, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> >> On 20 Jul 2016, at 9:13, Tim Čas wrote:
> >> 
> >> > So, without further ado:
> >> > 1) What are the reasons that UTF-8 isn't the default yet?
> >> > 2) Would it be possible to make this the default in 11.0? What about
> >> > 12.0?
> >> > 3) Assuming an effort is started towards making UTF-8 the default,
> >> > what changes would be required?
> >> 
> >> At least according to one of my students (who makes more extensive use of
> >> i18n than I do), enabling UTF-8 by default is pretty straightforward:
> >> 
> >> https://github.com/musec/freebsd/wiki/Common-setup#utf-8-support
> > 
> > the LC_COLLATE=C is not needed anymore with freebsd 11+
> 
> Weird, when I set LC_ALL or LC_COLLATE to nb_NO.UTF-8 I can no longer
> run ls in $HOME. It hangs until I kill it. Same happens with
> da_DK.UTF-8; no problem with sv_SE.UTF-8 or en_GB.UTF-8.
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 11.0-BETA1 i386 (r302984) and I think someone
> else reported a similiar issue earlier.

This has been fixed in stable/11 just a few minutes ago

Best regards,
Bapt
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