Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:06:55 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode, 8-bit cleanliness, etc. Message-ID: <9a0blv$2ghl$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <p05001932b6e891d8ebed@[192.168.168.205]>
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Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote: > I recently started playing with Mac OS X, which allows Unicode (UTF-8, > AFAIK) in its path names. Because I'm also using my trusty FreeBSD box, > I'm wondering if there's any reason to worry about compatibility. So, > is FreeBSD totally 8-bit clean or are there some tarpits I should avoid? 8-bit cleanness is a given, considering that Europeans have used various single-byte 8-bit character sets (ISO 8859, KOI, etc) on FreeBSD for many years. The filesystem of course doesn't care, apart from '/' (directory separator) and '\0' (string terminator) it doesn't assign any meaning to particular characters. UTF-8's multi-byte nature *will* produce many cosmetic problems (e.g. ls(1) not aligning columns properly) throughout the system. More work on this is needed. Note that there's a freebsd-i18n list that deals with such issues. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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