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Date:      Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:36:13 +0200
From:      "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@mailbox.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UTF-8 by default?
Message-ID:  <86vb00jbcy.wl-herbert@mailbox.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160720140741.yi7vfgmmqtg6eprx@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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Baptiste Daroussin skrev:
> =

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:47:45AM -0230, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
>> On 20 Jul 2016, at 9:13, Tim =C8as wrote:
>> =

>> > So, without further ado:
>> > 1) What are the reasons that UTF-8 isn't the default yet?
>> > 2) Would it be possible to make this the default in 11.0? What abo=
ut
>> > 12.0?
>> > 3) Assuming an effort is started towards making UTF-8 the default,=

>> > what changes would be required?
>> =

>> At least according to one of my students (who makes more extensive u=
se of
>> i18n than I do), enabling UTF-8 by default is pretty straightforward=
:
>> =

>> https://github.com/musec/freebsd/wiki/Common-setup#utf-8-support
> =

> the LC_COLLATE=3DC is not needed anymore with freebsd 11+

Weird, when I set LC_ALL or LC_COLLATE to nb_NO.UTF-8 I can no longer
run ls in $HOME. It hangs until I kill it. Same happens with
da_DK.UTF-8; no problem with sv_SE.UTF-8 or en_GB.UTF-8.

I am running FreeBSD 11.0-BETA1 i386 (r302984) and I think someone
else reported a similiar issue earlier.

--
Herbert



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