Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:49:14 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> Subject: Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8 Message-ID: <20150125184914.GP81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <23185.1422208170@chaos> References: <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20150125143243.GB76051@zxy.spb.ru> <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2@ixsystems.com> <23506.1422204612@critter.freebsd.dk> <20150125171042.GQ3698@zxy.spb.ru> <23185.1422208170@chaos>
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--AwNVUpjOmSj7UnwZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 09:49:30AM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@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. >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > 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 --AwNVUpjOmSj7UnwZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlTFOqoACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EyDmQCgvex0XNVi25DXYd1xoxXNPUuB ASkAn1jI1HF39s+e2bStMlxMU2YJ/GE6 =yeL/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AwNVUpjOmSj7UnwZ--
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