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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:38:23 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8
Message-ID:  <20150125083823.0625eb7d@ernst.home>
In-Reply-To: <20150124181016.GK81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <F9220621-9248-46B6-9774-F53BE3EE6A35@bsdimp.com> <20150124181016.GK81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:10:16 +0100
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:52:01AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > 
> > > On Jan 24, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > After a bit of hacking on libedit it is now able to handle unicode inputs in a
> > > better way. At least good enough for /bin/sh to work normally in unicode
> > > environements.
> > > 
> > > Given that vt handles properly unicode inputs. I would like to propose that now
> > > we set the defaults locales on HEAD to en_US.UTF-8.
> > > 
> > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1467
> > 
> > Do recent vintage Terms and its decedents handle UTF-8? If so, then that?s likely
> > a reasonable default change.
> 
> From what I'm aware of all modern (including the good old xterm) do support
> UTF-8 correctly.
> > 

What about sc?  I don't use vt myself because the font is fugly.

> > Then again, I speak English, and the change does now explicitly specify a language
> > which before defaulted to English.
> 
> Maybe the bsdconfig can be tweak to allow the user to chose the default
> language?
> 

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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