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

[Simon J. Gerraty]

Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> System software (from FreeBSD base) not exclusive for this behaviour
> (dangerous dependens from current locale). This is may be third-party
> sofware or software writen by customer. Unexpected setting locale to
> UTF-8 may be broken this software.

Yes, svn client fails on checkout if file contains UTF-8 and client's
local is not compatible, error is to the effect of "cannot translate".
Only fix is to change loacle to UTF-8 then remove the offending chars if
possible. 

UTF-8 is a bit like GPL - forces everyone to follow suit.