Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:18:38 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: MikeM <mike_bsdlists@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000321101838.00a4d6e0@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20000320194702.11223.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 11:47 20-03-2000 -0800, MikeM wrote: >Has anyone thought of Unicode support on FreeBSD? Certainly. >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? I worked on Unicode support last year, but had to discontinue my work due to serious health problems (almost died). I am better now, but am not likely to resume this particular work in the near future. Anyway, I did partial support, with a UTF-8 package that is in the ports (I think it is called utrans). It allows you to convert between various Unicode encodings. As for console support, I do not see how full Unicode set of characters could be displayed on the standard console due to its hardware design which allows for a theoretical maximum of 256 characters, with a practical maximum even less. X Window certainly does not have that limitation, but that is not directly a matter of FreeBSD. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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