Re: UTF-8 by default?

From: Herbert J. Skuhra <herbert_at_mailbox.org> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:36:13 +0200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:41:06 UTC

Baptiste Daroussin skrev:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:47:45AM -0230, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
>> On 20 Jul 2016, at 9:13, Tim Čas wrote:
>> 
>> > So, without further ado:
>> > 1) What are the reasons that UTF-8 isn't the default yet?
>> > 2) Would it be possible to make this the default in 11.0? What about
>> > 12.0?
>> > 3) Assuming an effort is started towards making UTF-8 the default,
>> > what changes would be required?
>> 
>> At least according to one of my students (who makes more extensive use of
>> i18n than I do), enabling UTF-8 by default is pretty straightforward:
>> 
>> https://github.com/musec/freebsd/wiki/Common-setup#utf-8-support
> 
> the LC_COLLATE=C is not needed anymore with freebsd 11+

Weird, when I set LC_ALL or LC_COLLATE to nb_NO.UTF-8 I can no longer
run ls in $HOME. It hangs until I kill it. Same happens with
da_DK.UTF-8; no problem with sv_SE.UTF-8 or en_GB.UTF-8.

I am running FreeBSD 11.0-BETA1 i386 (r302984) and I think someone
else reported a similiar issue earlier.

--
Herbert