C.UTF-8 as default locale

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 4 06:52:45 UTC 2018


On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 09:35:48AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking through https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201810, I noticed the
> following entry:
> 
> - Make C.UTF-8 the default locale (conrad, dteske(installer))
> 
> As this sort of change is better done early, I have put togetger a
> simple change introducing C.UTF-8 locale using the same common LC_CTYPE
> map as other UTF-8 locales (and it's now the source of symlinks instead
> of en_US one), and having all other components use C locale:
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17833
> 
> With that in place, next step is likely to be updating 'default' entry
> in /etc/login.conf to include 'charset=UTF-8' and 'lang=C.UTF-8', and
> changes to installer are likely to be not needed?
> 


Hey I never thought it could be done in such an easy way! don't know why,
I was always looking at it in a complex way, thus never started it.

Thank you very much, this looks fine to me! and that is imho a great addition

Best regards,
Bapt
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