svn commit: r281129 - head/etc

[Stanislav Sedov]

> On Apr 10, 2015, at 1:38 AM, Stanislav Sedov <stas at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 10, 2015, at 12:32 AM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:08:45AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
>> S> What benefits from switching to utf8 locale in 'default' login class?
>> 
>> Being on the same page as rest of the world?
>> 
> 
> To be fair, this is not exactly true.  To my knowledge no mainstream
> operating systems except Linux employ UTF-8 at the moment:
> * Windows is still UTF-16 based
> * Mac OS X uses it’s own version of UTF-8 (aka UTF-8-MAC)
>  which is the cause of constant pain when moving files between
>  OS X and FreeBSD.
> 

Sorry, I just realized that I might have replied to something
that you didn’t actually say.  Ignore that part of my email
if you didn’t mean compatibility with other operating systems.

As for the change, my concern is basically the following.  The
only effect of this commit is that all the users with the
‘russian’ login class will be automatically switched from KOI8
to UTF8 as a part of the next update.  Do we actually want
this to happen?

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