Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:50:12 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> Subject: Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8 Message-ID: <23506.1422204612@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2@ixsystems.com> References: <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20150125143243.GB76051@zxy.spb.ru> <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2@ixsystems.com>
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-------- In message <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2@ixsystems.com>, Jordan Hu= bbard writes: The point about vi(1) is that if you happen to open an ISO-8859 file while in UTF-8 mode, change something on the first line, it will happily and almost imperceptively truncate your file at the first non-UTF byte sequence. Needless to say, that is *not* the expected behaviour. -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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