Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:36:48 -0800 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8 Message-ID: <21829.1422207408@chaos> In-Reply-To: <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > Given that vt handles properly unicode inputs. I would like to propose that now > we set the defaults locales on HEAD to en_US.UTF-8. We've recently been inflicted with more Linux machines at work and these have en_US.UTF-8 as default locale. I run emacs -nw inside screen inside xterm (so I can easily re-attach from anywhere). I traced the fact that meta key didn't work to the locale setting. Forcing it to 'C' made everything work as it should. In the past I've found (on some systems at least) that locale's other than 'C' break shell scripts - because character classes no longer match. I assume this is due to different collating rules. Thus my FAQ entry on how to survive with these machines mentions that Setting ``LANG=C`` and ``LC_ALL=C`` fixes lots of problems. So my vote would be "no" ;-)
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