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

Slawa Olhovchenkov slw at zxy.spb.ru
Sun Jan 25 14:32:49 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 03:33:57PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin 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
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt

NO! Please, NOT!
Not all bytestring allowed in UTF-8, as result -- unpedicable failed
execution of sed, grep, vi, ed and etc.


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