Re: IUTF8 on by default
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:19:18 UTC
Hello, What do you think about this? Would there be any significant side-effects or breakages if we enable this option by default? For context, look at the PR description. Christos Warner Losh wrote: > I'd post this to arch@. I think it's a good idea, but I don't know the > larger implications. > > Warner > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:46 PM Christos Margiolis <christos@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > > I was thinking about the discussion we had in D42067 [1] about whether > > the IUTF8 flag should be enabled by default. Warner suggested that since > > the default locale is UTF-8, setting IUTF8 by default shouldn't be too > > bad. > > > > Do you think we should go ahead with this change and have it enabled by > > default in sys/sys/ttydefaults.h, or add a check in tty_init_termios() > > whether the current locale is UTF-8, and manually enable it there? > > > > Christos > > > > [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42067