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Date:      Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:10:16 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8
Message-ID:  <20150124181016.GK81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <F9220621-9248-46B6-9774-F53BE3EE6A35@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <F9220621-9248-46B6-9774-F53BE3EE6A35@bsdimp.com>

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:52:01AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>=20
> > On Jan 24, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrot=
e:
> >=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > After a bit of hacking on libedit it is now able to handle unicode inpu=
ts in a
> > better way. At least good enough for /bin/sh to work normally in unicode
> > environements.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1467
>=20
> Do recent vintage Terms and its decedents handle UTF-8? If so, then that=
=E2=80=99s likely
> a reasonable default change.

=46rom what I'm aware of all modern (including the good old xterm) do suppo=
rt
UTF-8 correctly.
>=20
> 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?

Best regards,
Bapt

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