Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:49:30 -0800 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8 Message-ID: <23185.1422208170@chaos> In-Reply-To: <20150125171042.GQ3698@zxy.spb.ru> References: <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20150125143243.GB76051@zxy.spb.ru> <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2@ixsystems.com> <23506.1422204612@critter.freebsd.dk> <20150125171042.GQ3698@zxy.spb.ru>
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Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> wrote: > System software (from FreeBSD base) not exclusive for this behaviour > (dangerous dependens from current locale). This is may be third-party > sofware or software writen by customer. Unexpected setting locale to > UTF-8 may be broken this software. Yes, svn client fails on checkout if file contains UTF-8 and client's local is not compatible, error is to the effect of "cannot translate". Only fix is to change loacle to UTF-8 then remove the offending chars if possible. UTF-8 is a bit like GPL - forces everyone to follow suit.
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