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Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support UTF-8 locale well?
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I use zh_CN.GBK as a tentative solution, It works but not as perfectly
as I expected. If I use zh_CN.UTF-8, almost all of the Chinese
characters in the fat32 partition can't be displayed correctly when
mounted.

BTW, is there any plan the improve UTF-8 support in BSD community?


2007/9/19, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>:
> ronggui wrote:
>
> > In terms of UTF-8 support, Linux seems better than FreeBSD. How do you
> > guys think?
>
> Yes. FreeBSD's UTF-8 support is really bad, and it's practically
> nonexistant when you look at things like collation.
>
>
>


-- 
Ronggui Huang

Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Department of Public and Social Administration, CityU, HK