Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:38:23 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8 Message-ID: <20150125083823.0625eb7d@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <20150124181016.GK81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20150124143357.GI81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <F9220621-9248-46B6-9774-F53BE3EE6A35@bsdimp.com> <20150124181016.GK81001@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:10:16 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:52:01AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > On Jan 24, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > After a bit of hacking on libedit it is now able to handle unicode inputs in a > > > better way. At least good enough for /bin/sh to work normally in unicode > > > environements. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1467 > > > > Do recent vintage Terms and its decedents handle UTF-8? If so, then that?s likely > > a reasonable default change. > > From what I'm aware of all modern (including the good old xterm) do support > UTF-8 correctly. > > What about sc? I don't use vt myself because the font is fugly. > > Then again, I speak English, and the change does now explicitly specify a language > > which before defaulted to English. > > Maybe the bsdconfig can be tweak to allow the user to chose the default > language? > -- Gary Jennejohn
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