Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:46:19 +0800 From: lawrence.hy.cheung@philips.com To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: About the i18n support of the FreeBSD 3.x-STABLE base system Message-ID: <0056920004787712000002L222*@MHS>
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Dear folks I am a FreeBSD 3.x-STABLE user in Hong Kong SAR, China. According to it= s' stability, better performance and easy-to-upgrade, I love FreeBSD mo= re than any Linux distribution. At present, I use FreeBSD as the 'Big S= erver' in my small home LAN for internet=20 gateway, mail server, web server, uucp connection, mySQL server. At the= same time, my desktop platform is a chinese Linux distribution --- Tur= bo Linux Traditional Chinese version 4.8. To tell you the turth, I do not like playing 'rpm' base linux system!! = I feel upset because I don't know everything behind the mask. Any Linux= distributions have their unique style so that I need to learn from scr= atch. It provides chinese support is the only reason led me to use it. Its's = chinese support includes Chinese XFree86, chinese printing, chinese console, chinese vi, chinese KDE .....etc. Yes! you can find much 'chinese' software from the ports tree "/usr/por= ts/chinese". They provides near function as a Chinese Linux does. Howev= er, the chinese ports software only provides chinese support at "applic= ation level". Now, I want to know how far does FreeBSD base system supports i18n envi= ronment? At the Linux sides, Some Linux distribution supports internati= on languages at "system level" mainly due to using glibc 2.1.x ...... = So how about FreeBSD? After changing to use a chinese locale , zh_Big5.tw, I invoke system's = perl with warning: "unknown locale, flow back to C locale". It seems the FreeBSD base system does not support chinese locale. Is th= is mean FreeBSD does not support i18n? Will FreeBSD 4.0 support i18n? Thanks, Lawrence H.Y. Cheung= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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