On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 18:06 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <1396457629.2280.2.ca...@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com>, > sbr...@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
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