From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 10:24:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9635C1065672 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:24:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phoemix@harmless.hu) Received: from marvin.harmless.hu (marvin.harmless.hu [195.56.55.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5648E8FC0C for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:24:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.mediatech.hu ([217.150.138.140] helo=unknown) by marvin.harmless.hu with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1NrTin-000PsW-1G; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:09:57 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:10:04 +0100 From: Gergely CZUCZY To: Dominic Fandrey Message-ID: <20100316111004.000037df@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4B9A9ABC.90801@bsdforen.de> References: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com> <4B9A9ABC.90801@bsdforen.de> Organization: Harmless Digital Bt X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:24:33 -0000 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:49:16 +0100 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 12/03/2010 19:23, =E8=91=89=E4=BD=B3=E5=A8=81 Jiawei Ye wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Elmar Stellnberger > > wrote: > >> Isn`t it time for FreeBSD to fully support Unicode/UTF-8 by now? > >> It is considered to be standard charset by now. XML uses it by > >> default. If you are working with texts in different languages > >> there is no alternative to UTF-8. > >> If you chat with a Linux machine you can easily run into charset > >> troubles if you are > >> still using the old iso-8859-1. > >> > >> By now it is no problem to activate UTF-8 for your console. > >> However a comprehensive Unicode support would require much more: > >> i.e. configuring all user packages like KDE for Unicode support and > >> asserting that also file names (f.i. from ext2 partitions) are > >> interpreted correctly. > > Do you have a concrete example of how FreeBSD fails to support > > UTF-8? I have been setting my LANG to zh_TW.UTF-8 for years without > > problem with modern software. As this is the ports list, I guess > > you have some issues with the software in the ports collection? >=20 > I second this. I've been using en_GB.UTF-8 since 5.3. Even the file > system can deal with UTF-8 encoded file names. I tried to create > files with Arabian, Chinese, Russian and other characters. > It all worked. >=20 I think he is referring to the syscons. Syscons lacks UTF supports, though some work is being done: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SysconsUnicodeProject