From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 3 20:17:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241DC37B5E1 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:17:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (rh5.bfm.org [216.127.220.198]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:18:32 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000403221617.008e2500@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 22:16:17 -0500 To: Alex Belits , MikeM From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <20000320194702.11223.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 15:23 03-04-2000 -0700, Alex Belits wrote: >On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, MikeM wrote: > >> Has anyone thought of Unicode support on FreeBSD? > > Really the question is much more basic -- who benefits from having >Unicode (or Unicode in the form of UTF-8) support. It isn't me for sure Everyone who works with multilingual documents. Everyone who wants to follow a single international standard as opposed to a slew of mutually exclusive local standards. Anyone who thinks globally. Anyone who has anything to do with the Internet must deal with UTF-8: "Protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 charset, which consists of the ISO 10646 coded character set combined with the UTF-8 character encoding scheme, as defined in [10646] Annex R (published in Amendment 2), for all text." >-- I am Russian. So? Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message