From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 10:13:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9471106566B for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:13:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexanderchuranov@gmail.com) Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2BD8FC18 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:13:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexanderchuranov@gmail.com) Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id e34so1174227qbe.35 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:13:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=eH775mGYHMDM2GCPmQH0YbCeGedjJip3rjpvyn12bvY=; b=sC8vbyhFIr98TY8uiHW4uMYZccVeTgl10I6xEyoSV3FW9ImvXIkuDHTRcCsVpTPcZM y9rYJ69QC8vnoQJyBqClXMvf/wfQUfCD+weevQF/XOSh7dO0NQO8FOyoFntM216H134B J9i2hMUBUebatyJLWNrkMs2+w54VoCjo5ptfk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=I3bZy0omcIBKRXAaJSQfldwrEweWQ+UMkJOxC4NqvYJkKwyhIrJkWAFyPW3K2anh+q DD1wyhc9ZZyKGE0zlNPsIS6ikPL7GjixWbRNp1hNyqRBGeXOMI4WLnNL7t1d5Qk7dLIN u7vuRZy6HmHo9aQgWPrkrBVufaDTZpc5xfpfc= Received: by 10.210.65.2 with SMTP id n2mr3036516eba.48.1219485371170; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.130.15 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3cb459ed0808230256g3f0f51epd9ab54047d3bd681@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:56:11 +0400 From: "Alexander Churanov" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Unicode-based FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:13:17 -0000 Hi folks! I'm posting to this list, because I didn't find anything more appropriate and the only answer I've received on "freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org" was a suggestion to post to "freebsd-current". I am interested in FreeBSD internationalization and unicode support. I already spent some time examining the source of syscons. I think that syscons is the main problem in bringing full UTF-8 support to FreeBSD out of box. It seems that I am ready with the solution. That's why I am writing to this list. I have following questions: 0) Is moving to UTF-8 from 8-bit codepages desired for FreeBSD? 1) Is unicode support in character-mode (I mean plain tty, not Xorg) FreeBSD human interface alreay implemented? 2) Is somebody working on that? 3) What is the correct branch to check out source code? From what repository? 4) What is the process of submitting changes? Alexander Churanov