From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 1:46:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw-hk1.philips.com (gw-hk1.philips.com [202.130.151.66]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96DA432C for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 01:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtprelay-hk1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-hk1.philips.com with ESMTP id RAA29210 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:46:38 +0800 (HKT) (envelope-from lawrence.hy.cheung@philips.com) From: lawrence.hy.cheung@philips.com Received: from smtprelay-asp1.philips.com(130.147.65.5) by gw-hk1.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma029208; Thu, 3 Feb 00 17:46:39 +0800 Received: from APLMS01.DIAMOND.PHILIPS.COM (aplms01sv1.diamond.philips.com [130.147.79.213]) by smtprelay-hk1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id RAA15218 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:46:37 +0800 (HKT) Received: by APLMS01.DIAMOND.PHILIPS.COM (Soft-Switch LMS 4.0) with snapi via APAC id 0056920004787712; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:46:19 +0800 To: Subject: About the i18n support of the FreeBSD 3.x-STABLE base system Message-ID: <0056920004787712000002L222*@MHS> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:46:19 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="MEMO 02/03/00 17:45:50" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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