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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:54:35 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, 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:  <20150125185434.GQ81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <23506.1422204612@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20150125143243.GB76051@zxy.spb.ru> <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2@ixsystems.com> <23506.1422204612@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 04:50:12PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> --------
> In message <7B1D8345-248B-4C44-9568-079BA29614C2@ixsystems.com>, Jordan Hubbard
>  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.

Right I misunderstood your mail first, rereading this is true. So for sure this
needs to be fixed before switching the locale.

Bapt

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