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

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:52:01AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > 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.

From what I'm aware of all modern (including the good old xterm) do support
UTF-8 correctly.
> 
> Then again, I speak English, and the change does now explicitly specify a language
> which before defaulted to English.

Maybe the bsdconfig can be tweak to allow the user to chose the default
language?

Best regards,
Bapt
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