Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:22:48 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VGltIMSMYXM=?= <darkuranium@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 by default? Message-ID: <CANd9X8csT9tS%2BVPc3PGBVNMkazSzi9H5_2MaRXXgA6G2%2BqpSMQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160720140741.yi7vfgmmqtg6eprx@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <CANd9X8f5wHvdwN_XZ2y0qsiydYyb=NKLXF0k65S0_TiuWHeGKA@mail.gmail.com> <B68D48ED-66CA-4E5B-8ED2-555B397AC73E@FreeBSD.org> <20160720140741.yi7vfgmmqtg6eprx@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On 20 July 2016 at 16:07, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:47:45AM -0230, Jonathan Anderson wrote: >> On 20 Jul 2016, at 9:13, Tim =C4=8Cas 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 about >> > 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 use o= f >> 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+ >> >> If there's anything missing there, I'd love to hear about it. >> > > Lot of work has been done during the 11.0 development the following issue= s were > fixed: [SNIP] Yes, these are exactly the kind of issues I'm talking about w.r.t. `3)`. > * medium (minor?) > - login(1) does not handle unicode properly Where does `login(1)` need to handle Unicode, though? I mean, I'm not expecting the OS to allow UTF-8 usernames (that would be ... problematic, to say the last).
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