Re: HEADS UP: IUTF8 to be enabled by default

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Christos Margiolis writes:

> Two possible solutions I have thought of:
>
> 1. Add IUTF8 to TTYDEF_IFLAG in sys/sys/ttydefaults.h.
> 2. Add a check in tty_init_termios() whether the current locale is
>    UTF-8 (how?), and enable it there.
>
> What do you think? Could this change cause any side-effects we haven't
> thought about?

Ideally this should be part of libc's "unified session setup",
which UNIX unfortunately never have had.

With N different login shells, accounts which do not login to a
traditional shell etc. AND considering that UTF8 have universally
become the "lingua franka", I vote that it makes a lot more sense
to simply make it the default (ie: your first suggestion) rather
than add complexity all over the place, yet missing out some obscure
cases.

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