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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.

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