Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:10:25 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: MikeM <mike_bsdlists@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000321134850.13688o-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20000320194702.11223.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, MikeM wrote: > Has anyone thought of Unicode support on FreeBSD? > Depends on what you mean by 'Unicode support'. If you use a suitable encoding (UTF-8?) everything should work, only it might look strange, as userland doesn't support it. It is largely a 'application space' problem as I understand it - you need to modify each and every utility to know that file names should be treated as strings of wide characters. Toolkits providing a 'select file' std dialog need to be dealt with. > I think that it is inevitable that eventually FreeBSD > will *need* to support unicode if it wants to continue > as a viable operating system in the future. This means > that it probably will need to be modified from the > ground up. I am not well versed in the specifics of > what's needed, but if someone could explain it to me > I'd be gratefull. > See above for a subset. > Is it possible, or is it totally out of the question? > > What would it require? > > Is there any way of implementing partial support, > working in stages, untill it is fully supported? > > > Thanks, > Mike. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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