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

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 25 18:46:13 UTC 2015


On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 04:50:12PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> --------
> In message <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2 at ixsystems.com>, Jordan Hubbard
>  writes:
> 
> The point about vi(1) is that if you happen to open an ISO-8859 file
> while in UTF-8 mode, change something on the first line, it will
> happily and almost imperceptively truncate your file at the first
> non-UTF byte sequence.
> 
> Needless to say, that is *not* the expected behaviour.
> 

That was the case with old vi not with the vi we have in head at least I'm not
able to truncate files with actual vi

Bapt
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