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Date:      Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:05:27 +1300
From:      Richard B Mahoney <RBM49@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
To:        Subscribers to FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   FreeBSD / Unicode / en_US.UTF-8 ?
Message-ID:  <20011105100527.A79226@it.canterbury.ac.nz>

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Dear Readers,

Does FreeBSD support the unicode utf-8 encoding?

System Details : 4.3-Release / XFree86-4.1.0_6

Locale in ~/.profile : LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG

Commands attempted with little success :

./emacs -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1

 (This is GNU Emacs 21.1)

xterm -u8 -fn \
 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 xterm -fn
 '-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1'

 (& w/- en_US.UTF-8)


None of the above succeeds is getting non-standard characters to
display.


I have read the resource available at :

 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html


What am I doing wrong?

Is is that FreeBSD lags behind Linux and Solaris in providing unicode
support? I hope not. This is going to be critical in the years ahead.


Many regards,

 Richard Mahoney


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