On 20 July 2016 at 16:07, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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+ >> >> If there's anything missing there, I'd love to hear about it. >> > > Lot of work has been done during the 11.0 development the following issues > were > fixed: [SNIP]
Yes, these are exactly the kind of issues I'm talking about w.r.t. `3)`. > * medium (minor?) > - login(1) does not handle unicode properly Where does `login(1)` need to handle Unicode, though? I mean, I'm not expecting the OS to allow UTF-8 usernames (that would be ... problematic, to say the last). _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
