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

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 08:11:09AM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> File bugs file bugs file bug file bugs *sings*
> 
> Yes, file bugs when you come across these issues.

You offer me to submit PR?
I think this is not fixable: locale is UTF-8, historical content is not valid UTF-8,
software wait text in current locale and got crap. No way.

I see only two choise:

1. use locale that accept any byte string
2. strict convert all content to utf-8 and use utf-8. strict convert is required. And this
is can't be done in general case (text string may be any any places).

> On 25 January 2015 at 07:50, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 06:58:13AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > On Jan 25, 2015, at 6:32 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > NO! Please, NOT!
> >> > Not all bytestring allowed in UTF-8, as result -- unpedicable failed
> >> > execution of sed, grep, vi, ed and etc.
> >>
> >> Huh.  Someone should warn Apple then, since $LANG has been set to en_US.UTF-8 by default in OS X for years now.  I just checked, and sed/grep/vi/ed/etc all still work. :)
> >>
> >> It's a good idea to change it.  We have outgrown ISO-Latin1, and UTF-8 solves a host of ugly I18N interoperability problems when used consistently.
> >
> > I am years use ru_RU.KOI8-R. Now I try use ru_RU.UTF8 and got some
> > issuse (on 10-STABLE). 9.x and OS may have dufferent version of
> > software and don't touch this.
> >
> > vi ~/tips.work
> > /home/slw/tips.work: unmodified: line 1; Conversion error on line 3
> >
> > This is koi8 file in utf8 locale.
> >
> > Other case -- file names in koi8 locale -- this is invalid in utf-8.
> > Change locale from C to utf8 may cause trouble.
> > This is (change from one-byte tu multi-bytes locale) may be do
> > individualy, after inspecting systems. This is may be OK for new
> > install, but not [automatic] for update/upgrade.
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