there was some internal discussion, and Ingo Schwarze made a compelling argument for this, as our resident UTF-8 expert: pkg_* tools are mostly used while setting up machines, and in some cases the tty might not be 100% utf-8 compliant.
So, effective immediately, all of pkg_* printouts will replace weird stuff (including utf-8 sequences) with ?... To avoid unpleasantness, pkg_create WILL downright refuse diacritics and similar stuff in DESCR. I've run a full bulk. This affected about 10 ports. To prove Ingo right, my current setup got somewhat wacky while editing those DESCR. It's probably not even 100% consistent (I got different behavior between home and work...) Maybe, just maybe, in 5 years, we'll get good enough utf-8 support across the board *including network* *including !openbsd behavior* *inclding editor defaults* that I can actually turn on /u in the safe sanitizer. As of now, losing accents in those 10 ports seems like a small price to pay for increased resilience...
