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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:49:14 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8
Message-ID:  <20150125184914.GP81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <23185.1422208170@chaos>
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> <23185.1422208170@chaos>

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On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 09:49:30AM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.=20
>=20
> UTF-8 is a bit like GPL - forces everyone to follow suit.

I can checkout FreeBSD's sources which contains UTF-8 files on a vanilla
freebsd aka locale being 'C'.

Bapt

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