On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 11:49:37AM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 11:41:41AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > S> > S> > >> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 01:32:27AM +0000, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > S> > S> > >> > S> > S> > >> Author: amdmi3 (ports committer) > S> > S> > >> Date: Mon Apr 6 01:32:26 2015 > S> > S> > >> New Revision: 281129 > S> > S> > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/281129 > S> > S> > >> > S> > S> > >> Log: > S> > S> > >> Switch russian login class to UTF-8 > S> > S> > > > S> > S> > > As discursed before this is may cause data lost. > S> > S> > > S> > S> > Why? > S> > S> > S> > S> Create file in koi8 locale with russian charaters. > S> > S> Update OS. Now you have utf-8 locale. > S> > S> Open file in vi. > S> > S> Save file. > S> > S> Done. Some data lost. > S> > S> vi and some other programs (tr and may by other) handle not-utf8 byte > secquence in non-safe way. > S> > > S> > Don't save file. > S> > S> You kidding. > S> vi may inform you about data lost only postfactum (in case no lines > S> with koi8 characters currently on screen). > > No, I'm not. > > You open an application, the application does something weird. Do you usually > select "Save" after that? For example, you open Microsoft Word file in > OpenOffice, > and you see that file is definitely mangled. Do you select "Save"? > > If you do, you are the one to blame. Don't blame application developers. The > application didn't do implicit save. > He is pointing at a vi bug: See https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2015-January/016702.html
Noone seems to have worked on it since :( Best regards, Bapt
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