svn commit: r281129 - head/etc

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 12:10:40AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> 
> > On Apr 5, 2015, at 23:56, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 01:32:27AM +0000, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> >> 
> >> Author: amdmi3 (ports committer)
> >> Date: Mon Apr  6 01:32:26 2015
> >> New Revision: 281129
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/281129
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >>  Switch russian login class to UTF-8
> > 
> > As discursed before this is may cause data lost.
> 
> Why?

Create file in koi8 locale with russian charaters.
Update OS. Now you have utf-8 locale.
Open file in vi.
Save file.
Done. Some data lost.
vi and some other programs (tr and may by other) handle not-utf8 byte secquence in non-safe way.

> >>  Reviewed by:    glebius
> >>  Approved by:    glebius
> >>  Differential Revision:    D2129
> >> 
> >> Modified:
> >>  head/etc/login.conf
> >> 
> >> Modified: head/etc/login.conf
> >> ==============================================================================
> >> --- head/etc/login.conf    Mon Apr  6 01:12:53 2015    (r281128)
> >> +++ head/etc/login.conf    Mon Apr  6 01:32:26 2015    (r281129)
> >> @@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ root:\
> >> # Russian Users Accounts. Setup proper environment variables.
> >> #
> >> russian|Russian Users Accounts:\
> >> -    :charset=KOI8-R:\
> >> -    :lang=ru_RU.KOI8-R:\
> >> +    :charset=UTF-8:\
> >> +    :lang=ru_RU.UTF-8:\
> >>    :tc=default:
> >> 
> >> 
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