From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 11:30:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E93C37B407 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:30:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 15MZcR-000895-00; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:30:51 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f6HISE451697 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:28:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Unicode support Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:28:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <9j203s$1if8$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <1094291862.20010717184905@web.de> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > Hello Questions crew, Actually, the people you are looking for probably hang out on the freebsd-i18n list. > I am wondering how far we have got with Unicode support under > FreeBSD; Nowhere, but read on. > - Filesystem (Does FFS support UTF8? Not applicable. Unix filesystems support all byte values in file names except 0x2F ('/') and 0, which serve as directory separator and string terminator, respectively. So you can just go ahead and use UTF-8 for file names. > - System console (Does the system console support UTF8 screen output > and/or keystroke conversion? No. UTF-8 screen output is problematical, because the VGA character mode only supports 256/512 glyphs, although one could use a graphics mode if desperate, I guess. > Is UTF8 available as an input encoding on the console? As far as I can tell, the current keyboard framework is limited to one octet per key. > Can I use unicode-based locales?) No. This is rather the most serious shortcoming at the moment. > - X Windows (Can I use an unicode xterm, even when the system console > does NOT support unicode?) "X Windows"? Never heard of such a thing. If you mean X11, see the X(1) man page for proper ways to refer to it. Yes, you can use a Unicode xterm. In fact, if you install XFree86 4, the standard xterm is already UTF-8-capable (use -u8 to enable) and some Unicode fonts are included. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message