Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:47:08 +0200 From: "Adrian Penisoara" <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> To: "Alexander Churanov" <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode-based FreeBSD Message-ID: <78cb3d3f0808240147m3bc941adpa565dff67e870c89@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3cb459ed0808221700w335b0906g6901d8b8bec4dad9@mail.gmail.com> References: <3cb459ed0808221700w335b0906g6901d8b8bec4dad9@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks! > > 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? I can't pronounce on this but, since the majority of modern OS'es have Unicode support in the console, I believe it's a good thing to have. > > 1) Is unicode support in character-mode (I mean plain tty, not Xorg) FreeBSD > human interface alreay implemented? Last time I checked, no. > > 2) Is somebody working on that? > > 3) What is the correct branch to check out source code? From what > repository? Usually stuff gets imported into the development tree (HEAD, also known as -CURRENT) then, if proven stable, is ported back to the -STABLE branch. SVN repository is available on http://svn.freebsd.org/base/ , but developers may get access to Perforce (P4) development branches for long running projects. > > 4) What is the process of submitting changes? Get in touch with a FreeBSD committer. For starters I think you could engage someone on the freebsd-hackers list. Regards, Adrian.
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