[RFC] Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8

[Adrian Chadd]

File bugs file bugs file bug file bugs *sings*

Yes, file bugs when you come across these issues.



-adrian


On 25 January 2015 at 07:50, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 06:58:13AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Jan 25, 2015, at 6:32 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
>> >
>> > NO! Please, NOT!
>> > Not all bytestring allowed in UTF-8, as result -- unpedicable failed
>> > execution of sed, grep, vi, ed and etc.
>>
>> Huh.  Someone should warn Apple then, since $LANG has been set to en_US.UTF-8 by default in OS X for years now.  I just checked, and sed/grep/vi/ed/etc all still work. :)
>>
>> It's a good idea to change it.  We have outgrown ISO-Latin1, and UTF-8 solves a host of ugly I18N interoperability problems when used consistently.
>
> I am years use ru_RU.KOI8-R. Now I try use ru_RU.UTF8 and got some
> issuse (on 10-STABLE). 9.x and OS may have dufferent version of
> software and don't touch this.
>
> vi ~/tips.work
> /home/slw/tips.work: unmodified: line 1; Conversion error on line 3
>
> This is koi8 file in utf8 locale.
>
> Other case -- file names in koi8 locale -- this is invalid in utf-8.
> Change locale from C to utf8 may cause trouble.
> This is (change from one-byte tu multi-bytes locale) may be do
> individualy, after inspecting systems. This is may be OK for new
> install, but not [automatic] for update/upgrade.
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