Re: HEADS UP: IUTF8 to be enabled by default
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]>
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-------- Christos Margiolis writes: > Two possible solutions I have thought of: > > 1. Add IUTF8 to TTYDEF_IFLAG in sys/sys/ttydefaults.h. > 2. Add a check in tty_init_termios() whether the current locale is > UTF-8 (how?), and enable it there. > > What do you think? Could this change cause any side-effects we haven't > thought about? Ideally this should be part of libc's "unified session setup", which UNIX unfortunately never have had. With N different login shells, accounts which do not login to a traditional shell etc. AND considering that UTF8 have universally become the "lingua franka", I vote that it makes a lot more sense to simply make it the default (ie: your first suggestion) rather than add complexity all over the place, yet missing out some obscure cases. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.