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Date:      Mon, 6 Apr 2015 10:55:00 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@FreeBSD.org>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r281129 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <20150406085500.GA56860@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20150406084937.GX64665@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201504060132.t361WRVe090234@svn.freebsd.org> <20150406065619.GH74532@zxy.spb.ru> <6A81B952-BA41-4FF2-9215-D7E69EB8C6FE@gmail.com> <20150406071640.GJ23643@zxy.spb.ru> <20150406082553.GW64665@FreeBSD.org> <20150406084141.GK23643@zxy.spb.ru> <20150406084937.GX64665@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 11:49:37AM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 11:41:41AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> S> > S> > >> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 01:32:27AM +0000, Dmitry Marakasov w=
rote:
> S> > S> > >>=20
> S> > S> > >> Author: amdmi3 (ports committer)
> S> > S> > >> Date: Mon Apr  6 01:32:26 2015
> S> > S> > >> New Revision: 281129
> S> > S> > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/281129
> S> > S> > >>=20
> S> > S> > >> Log:
> S> > S> > >>  Switch russian login class to UTF-8
> S> > S> > >=20
> S> > S> > > As discursed before this is may cause data lost.
> S> > S> >=20
> S> > S> > Why?
> S> > S>=20
> S> > S> Create file in koi8 locale with russian charaters.
> S> > S> Update OS. Now you have utf-8 locale.
> S> > S> Open file in vi.
> S> > S> Save file.
> S> > S> Done. Some data lost.
> S> > S> vi and some other programs (tr and may by other) handle not-utf8 =
byte secquence in non-safe way.
> S> >=20
> S> > Don't save file.
> S>=20
> S> You kidding.
> S> vi may inform you about data lost only postfactum (in case no lines
> S> with koi8 characters currently on screen).
>=20
> No, I'm not.
>=20
> You open an application, the application does something weird. Do you usu=
ally
> select "Save" after that? For example, you open Microsoft Word file in Op=
enOffice,
> and you see that file is definitely mangled. Do you select "Save"?
>=20
> If you do, you are the one to blame. Don't blame application developers. =
The
> application didn't do implicit save.
>=20
He is pointing at a vi bug:
See https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2015-January/016702.ht=
ml

Noone seems to have worked on it since :(

Best regards,
Bapt

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