svn commit: r281129 - head/etc

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, April 10, 2015 01:22:04 PM Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 03:02:54AM -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> S> If we add a new, ‘russian_utf8' login class:
> S> * New and existing users created without login class are unaffected;
> S> * New users created with the ‘russian’ class explicitly
> S>   set will have KOI-8 encoding enabled;
> S> * New users created with the ‘russian_utf8’ class explicitly
> S>   set will have UTF-8 encoding enabled;
> S> * Existing russian UTF8 users are unaffected
> S> * Existing KOI8-R users are unaffected
> S> * Login classes for both UTF8 and KOI8-R are available
> S> 
> S> Am I missing something? 
> 
> What if I am 15 year old newbie, who doesn't know all the drama
> around 8-bit era. And I read on the Internet, that FreeBSD is
> superior to Ubuntu. So I decided to try FreeBSD. What login
> class would I choose: russian or russian_utf8? The latter
> is something I don't know about, so I will choose the former.
> 
> Also, if we speak about existing installations. Those have
> /etc/adduser.conf saved. And new users would be prompted
> to be created with 'russian' class, since previous were.
> So new users would be created with KOI8-R til end of life
> of the box.

Eh, that's just a matter of documentation.  Just add a comment in
/etc/login.conf that "russian_utf8" is the preferred login class,
but that "russian" uses something else for legacy reasons.  Any user
using a non-default login class is already looking at this file
anyway.

-- 
John Baldwin