From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 17:54:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 763C21065678 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:54:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elmstel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C74958FC1A for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb24 with SMTP id 24so394213wwb.13 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:54:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xYOp98gT2wWP1/t9AxaMfyTreclMRDKGXqxc5iFcDrY=; b=Nd+OvNxTRnF4h5e0Ug1ZKNKOIVJhenBGtS+ONpA43xyfGXmx9w9TABDiQUiqdzYDBD /S/JaU4LhWR1lNUuVyyT+CP7UTCRlpGWn8nWNZW87IFSs3z4yv8pOjItuJAFVwD5j5Tp sg2pD+OA58AN8lvLpw/PPvb4wb5g/VciCf8qk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VC63YSlkMFEsbMYBglAbMfPjtNj1cd8YOwnYNPeP7VfGus0PoBtBPnxX5Y2IdEvQXm 8fVfcqYqc3ylSa3Ue05lXc1HaYmT9spG1IbTQHFKPJvm1qD5D8BUuyNNi9sM7QzTWSHe 6cdLGSfKZeZnkOVU6KCC5MTpEhy9VDxhhPgBA= Received: by 10.216.86.67 with SMTP id v45mr771102wee.70.1268416493935; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:54:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.0.7] (91-114-168-100.adsl.highway.telekom.at [91.114.168.100]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g11sm5960845gve.18.2010.03.12.09.54.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:54:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B9A7FEB.5080308@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:54:51 +0100 From: Elmar Stellnberger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org References: <4B98865B.5080300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B98865B.5080300@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:54:58 -0000 I am looking forward to engage in FreeBSD by implementing ext3-support and a suspend to disk facility. If there would be any interest I also ported my checkroot facility (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/). However all these little configuration issues like UTF-8 support are out of the scope what I can do because I am not a packager. I would be glad if the responsible packagers or anyone else was willing to engage in this. At least I will have to think about my engagement in terms of community support for precious issues like this one. > Yes! Good of you to say so! Your code and other patches will be > integrated as soon as you send them. > > > 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. > > >