Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:43:19 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "arch@freebsd.org" <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Switch the default locale to C.UTF-8 before FreeBSD 13 Message-ID: <16692305-26DC-4AAA-9962-47052807922A@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20201027154720.mjmn5cofvkqoyd5w@ivaldir.net> References: <20201027154720.mjmn5cofvkqoyd5w@ivaldir.net>
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--Apple-Mail=_6B45A323-91E0-48AE-AA22-B9630AB29508 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 27 Oct 2020, at 16:47, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 > I would like to switch the default locale to C.UTF-8 in FreeBSD 13.0 >=20 > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26973 >=20 > The C.UTF-8 locales is the same as the actual C locale except it does = support > the unicode character set. But the collation (aka how sort is being = done) etc > are still the same as the C locale. >=20 > What opinion on the matter? It's certainly an improvement, as long as we are sure that no scripting (either in the base system or in ports) breaks because of this. That said, we might also need to bite the bullet, and figure out how to set an actual language in the installer, or during system bootup. The rest of the world (aka Linux) already sets e.g. LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8. -Dimitry --Apple-Mail=_6B45A323-91E0-48AE-AA22-B9630AB29508 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.2 iF0EARECAB0WIQR6tGLSzjX8bUI5T82wXqMKLiCWowUCX5hOKAAKCRCwXqMKLiCW ozg5AKD9KY9QxO38Ot3qmoWsnLMi+XO31QCgw1xsbuak3yZty3ShjKDvT94jBqc= =BebI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_6B45A323-91E0-48AE-AA22-B9630AB29508--
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