svn commit: r281129 - head/etc

[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Slawa Olhovchenkov (slw at zxy.spb.ru) wrote:

> I am talk not about using or not using utf-8.
> I am talk about unconditionaly forcing switch from non-utf8 to utf-8
> locale (FreeBSD-11 can be get not only be fresh install but and by
> freebsd-update/source update on the live systems, with bunch files
> witch content in koi8 and named in koi8).

We have to switch sometime, and I say now is a good time. There's
high chance that default login class uses UTF-8 locale at some point
(PC-BSD had that for couple of years already afaik), so the issue
is not limited to russian or russian-utf8.

System update is not a problem at all - major branch switch implies
some attention, and converting file encodings or tuning default
locale is just a little part of it. Since the latter is always an
option, there's nothing to talk about here.

I don't think the project can lag behind and stay on crippled legacy
solutions forever just because someone does not want to update.

> Also, some config files (from ports) have raw 8-bit characters inside.

They'll have to be converted based on OSVERSION/option.

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