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To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8
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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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