Re: login.conf --> UTF-8

On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 18:06 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> In article <1396457629.2280.2.camel_at_powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com>,
> sbruno_at_freebsd.org writes:
> 
> >I'd like to make this change to login.conf for default installs.
> >
> >This removes some amount of hackery in the ports system that is working
> >around our lack of UTF-8 in the base.
> 
> I'm not sure what the connection is here.  Surely the ports system
> runs with the locale of the user running "make" (which in my case is
> going to be "C").  Any port that requires a specific locale to build
> properly needs to be setting that locale explicitly.
> 
> -GAWollman
> 

I have been informed by folks that this change I suggest would help in
the case of ports having to declare UTF-8 support explicitly or
something. I'm hand-wavy on the details and ignorant of the hacks in
place.  I only know that I've been *told* this.

sean