Re: C.UTF-8 as default locale

From: Yuri Pankov <yuripv_at_yuripv.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 01:16:33 +0300
Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 09:35:48AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking through https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201810, I noticed the
>> following entry:
>>
>> - Make C.UTF-8 the default locale (conrad, dteske(installer))
>>
>> As this sort of change is better done early, I have put togetger a
>> simple change introducing C.UTF-8 locale using the same common LC_CTYPE
>> map as other UTF-8 locales (and it's now the source of symlinks instead
>> of en_US one), and having all other components use C locale:
>>
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17833
>>
>> With that in place, next step is likely to be updating 'default' entry
>> in /etc/login.conf to include 'charset=UTF-8' and 'lang=C.UTF-8', and
>> changes to installer are likely to be not needed?
>>
> 
> 
> Hey I never thought it could be done in such an easy way! don't know why,
> I was always looking at it in a complex way, thus never started it.
> 
> Thank you very much, this looks fine to me! and that is imho a great addition

Thank you (and others) for the quick review.

I was also wondering, with this now in place, is anyone else working on
this?  Are there any known issues possibly preventing this from
happening now?


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