From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 11:09:36 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 D49D6106564A for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:09:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (ppp113-58.static.internode.on.net [150.101.113.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401BA8FC1B for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 032D1451CB; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:25 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:24 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Gergely CZUCZY , Elmar Stellnberger Message-ID: <20100316104324.GA1783@mavetju.org> References: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com> <4B9A9ABC.90801@bsdforen.de> <20100316111004.000037df@unknown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100316111004.000037df@unknown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Dominic Fandrey , 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 11:09:36 -0000 On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:10:04AM +0100, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:49:16 +0100 > Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > > On 12/03/2010 19:23, ????????? 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? > > > > 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/