Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:06:41 -0700 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r281129 - head/etc Message-ID: <C7B81740-9763-491E-9DBC-ECB4D368B82F@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CB87FA26-8C78-4A20-BC2C-6D3A9F0031E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <20150406082553.GW64665@FreeBSD.org> <20150406084141.GK23643@zxy.spb.ru> <20150406084937.GX64665@FreeBSD.org> <20150406085323.GL23643@zxy.spb.ru> <20150409215802.GY21982@hades.panopticon> <20150409220442.GQ8220@zxy.spb.ru> <20150409232711.GZ21982@hades.panopticon> <20150409234026.GH1394@zxy.spb.ru> <20150410000259.GA21982@hades.panopticon> <20150410070845.GU8220@zxy.spb.ru> <20150410073230.GE99375@FreeBSD.org> <CB87FA26-8C78-4A20-BC2C-6D3A9F0031E7@FreeBSD.org>
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> On Apr 10, 2015, at 1:38 AM, Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > >> On Apr 10, 2015, at 12:32 AM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:08:45AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: >> S> What benefits from switching to utf8 locale in 'default' login class? >> >> Being on the same page as rest of the world? >> > > To be fair, this is not exactly true. To my knowledge no mainstream > operating systems except Linux employ UTF-8 at the moment: > * Windows is still UTF-16 based > * Mac OS X uses it’s own version of UTF-8 (aka UTF-8-MAC) > which is the cause of constant pain when moving files between > OS X and FreeBSD. > Sorry, I just realized that I might have replied to something that you didn’t actually say. Ignore that part of my email if you didn’t mean compatibility with other operating systems. As for the change, my concern is basically the following. The only effect of this commit is that all the users with the ‘russian’ login class will be automatically switched from KOI8 to UTF8 as a part of the next update. Do we actually want this to happen? -- ST4096-RIPEhelp
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