[RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Jan 24 17:52:10 UTC 2015


> On Jan 24, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After a bit of hacking on libedit it is now able to handle unicode inputs in a
> better way. At least good enough for /bin/sh to work normally in unicode
> environements.
> 
> Given that vt handles properly unicode inputs. I would like to propose that now
> we set the defaults locales on HEAD to en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1467

Do recent vintage Terms and its decedents handle UTF-8? If so, then that’s likely
a reasonable default change.

Then again, I speak English, and the change does now explicitly specify a language
which before defaulted to English.

Warner



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