Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:24 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu>, Elmar Stellnberger <elmstel@gmail.com> Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20100316104324.GA1783@mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <20100316111004.000037df@unknown> References: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com> <c21e92e21003121023m65708c92p50d237d99d84dc8d@mail.gmail.com> <4B9A9ABC.90801@bsdforen.de> <20100316111004.000037df@unknown>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:10:04AM +0100, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:49:16 +0100 > Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: > > > On 12/03/2010 19:23, ????????? Jiawei Ye wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Elmar Stellnberger > > > <elmstel@gmail.com> 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? > > > > 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. > > > > I think he is referring to the syscons. Syscons lacks UTF supports, > though some work is being done: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/SysconsUnicodeProject I use sysutils/jfbterm on my laptop which doesn't work with X (hardware issue) anymore to overcome this problem. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis Website: http://www.mavetju.org/ edwin@mavetju.org Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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