Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:44:22 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8 Message-ID: <20150125184422.GN81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <21829.1422207408@chaos> References: <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <21829.1422207408@chaos>
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--6yHiY5vv/BiPjcMt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 09:36:48AM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > 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. >=20 > We've recently been inflicted with more Linux machines at work > and these have en_US.UTF-8 as default locale. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Thus my FAQ entry on how to survive with these machines mentions that > Setting ``LANG=3DC`` and ``LC_ALL=3DC`` fixes lots of problems. >=20 > So my vote would be "no" ;-) >=20 The collation change is fixed by my proposal: collation remain set to C Concerning vi in head it does support correctly unicode. Concerning sed/grep I'm not aware of any problem. There were to my knowledge 2 issues: - libedit which is now fixed. - console which is fixed by the switch to vt Bapt --6yHiY5vv/BiPjcMt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlTFOYYACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExmtQCfcgd8qwPoLvUD8SDuy/mlgeNd vPQAoLbLUXzrzUeA1cApsczjb5v7PY+J =KjbZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6yHiY5vv/BiPjcMt--
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