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From: "Jonathan Anderson" <jonathan@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 by default?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:47:45 -0230
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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
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