From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 07:38:28 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E6A8CB7; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x22f.google.com (mail-we0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFFCEF95; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f175.google.com with SMTP id p10so4184099wes.6; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 23:38:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2gVajXbLBO09gX2LTOrv18pS5H/WYhIlwMKm0TuUEto=; b=BNRXzP5u7UHsYTvp2xBpwpwkqYqCklW90LNK+KjCOKsxLX7WFX/0FdMBhmZvhSW6nB VRXrUz64ZyAIcKKlkWvXaIqJ2PgtQAXGhV9JVppco6nSG/8XVlM7aZpEqadBF2+IgPXX C84qUGg9aLbClGAOXBWCtjuWfnTkc1EqkH3JtzrTd/74X46iISJnkPsHfK3yNXg47m86 WBDZTnv6yyxE0P1dHYri/rXaZtgiNmIXzmPBvof5fVyPaLeYezX0vHQa+Yw/Sq3LJ42z wg/Gi/QpriA3RgG4HPMaD4LoTEdJubUwjeRTFLAJrIOgqNqvGry4HYalM6vQ+xfGGx8x qkOg== X-Received: by 10.180.87.42 with SMTP id u10mr14235078wiz.51.1422171506123; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 23:38:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernst.home (p578E2152.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [87.142.33.82]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id i13sm9122600wjr.7.2015.01.24.23.38.24 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 24 Jan 2015 23:38:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:38:23 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Baptiste Daroussin 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> <20150124181016.GK81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> Reply-To: gljennjohn@gmail.com X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:38:28 -0000 On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:10:16 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:52:01AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > On Jan 24, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Baptiste Daroussin 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