Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:47:45 -0230 From: "Jonathan Anderson" <jonathan@FreeBSD.org> To: "Tim =?utf-8?q?=C4=8Cas?=" <darkuranium@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 by default? Message-ID: <B68D48ED-66CA-4E5B-8ED2-555B397AC73E@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CANd9X8f5wHvdwN_XZ2y0qsiydYyb=NKLXF0k65S0_TiuWHeGKA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANd9X8f5wHvdwN_XZ2y0qsiydYyb=NKLXF0k65S0_TiuWHeGKA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 20 Jul 2016, at 9:13, Tim Čas wrote: > So, without further ado: > 1) What are the reasons that UTF-8 isn't the default yet? > 2) Would it be possible to make this the default in 11.0? What about > 12.0? > 3) Assuming an effort is started towards making UTF-8 the default, > what changes would be required? At least according to one of my students (who makes more extensive use of i18n than I do), enabling UTF-8 by default is pretty straightforward: https://github.com/musec/freebsd/wiki/Common-setup#utf-8-support If there's anything missing there, I'd love to hear about it. Jon -- Jonathan Anderson jonathan@FreeBSD.org
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