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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:11:09 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmo=RhpxgJ=0s2nim0zRDKr3wACmGc=4RGAXqF%2BFrrZsLHQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150125155000.GD76051@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20150125143243.GB76051@zxy.spb.ru> <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2@ixsystems.com> <20150125155000.GD76051@zxy.spb.ru>

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-adrian


On 25 January 2015 at 07:50, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 06:58:13AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Jan 25, 2015, at 6:32 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
>> >
>> > NO! Please, NOT!
>> > Not all bytestring allowed in UTF-8, as result -- unpedicable failed
>> > execution of sed, grep, vi, ed and etc.
>>
>> Huh.  Someone should warn Apple then, since $LANG has been set to en_US.UTF-8 by default in OS X for years now.  I just checked, and sed/grep/vi/ed/etc all still work. :)
>>
>> It's a good idea to change it.  We have outgrown ISO-Latin1, and UTF-8 solves a host of ugly I18N interoperability problems when used consistently.
>
> I am years use ru_RU.KOI8-R. Now I try use ru_RU.UTF8 and got some
> issuse (on 10-STABLE). 9.x and OS may have dufferent version of
> software and don't touch this.
>
> vi ~/tips.work
> /home/slw/tips.work: unmodified: line 1; Conversion error on line 3
>
> This is koi8 file in utf8 locale.
>
> Other case -- file names in koi8 locale -- this is invalid in utf-8.
> Change locale from C to utf8 may cause trouble.
> This is (change from one-byte tu multi-bytes locale) may be do
> individualy, after inspecting systems. This is may be OK for new
> install, but not [automatic] for update/upgrade.
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