Encoding in 7-CURRENT (next 7.0).

[Ivan Voras]

TooMany Secrets wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to know if the next release (7-RELENG), will come with
> the system into utf-8 encoding.
> I know that I can put my home, apps, etc, into UTF-8 without problems,
> but if I try this with the system, it could be more "dangerous".

I don't quite get what you mean by "system into utf-8 encoding". You can
have UTF-8 filenames in UFS (and AFAIK almost all other file systems,
with exception of msdosfs), and there will be no corruption.

Problems you will almost certainly encounter are:
- bogus / wrong sorting (FreeBSD's locale data for utf-8 is very lacking)
- the console (text-mode) doesn't support utf-8 so you'll see "garbage"
on it
- problems with Samba (more) and NFS (less, if the destination system is
configured to interpret file names as utf-8).

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