svn commit: r281129 - head/etc

Slawa Olhovchenkov slw at zxy.spb.ru
Fri Apr 10 08:46:11 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 08:39:49AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:20:49AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:32:30AM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:08:45AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > > S> What benefits from switching to utf8 locale in 'default' login class?
> > > 
> > > Being on the same page as rest of the world?
> > 
> > What benfit from it?
> > What is rest of world?
> > Windows used UTF-16
> > Centos used en_US.UTF-8
> > Ubuntu used C
> 
> Ubuntu is also xx_YY.UTF-8 depending on one's regional settings, but that
> does not really matter.

Ubuntu cron don't have setting for LANG.

> > I don't see common locale for 'rest of the world'.
> 
> It's not about having "common locale" with the rest of the world, it's the
> other way around: UTF-8 is far superior to anything else, and that's why
> the world (sane part thereof) switched to it, earlier or later.
> 
> I was just as conservative as you Slawa, and was perfectly happy with KOI8,
> but really, it should go now.  It served us well, but in the multi-language
> world it has no place, for better or for worse.
> 
> The unfortunate fat that nvi(1) is truncating files merely means that we'd
> have to fix nvi(1), not further delay finally going to bed with UTF-8.

Having additional login class and improving support of utf-8 in application cover
all cases and can be backported to old versions of FreeBSD.


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