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

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 09:49:30AM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> 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.

I can checkout FreeBSD's sources which contains UTF-8 files on a vanilla
freebsd aka locale being 'C'.

Bapt
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