From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 22 09:17:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09441106564A for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from mail.locolomo.org (97.pool85-48-194.static.orange.es [85.48.194.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD24A8FC12 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gamma.lan.locolomo.org (gamma.lan.locolomo.org [192.168.0.33]) by mail.locolomo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 01A121C0841; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:17:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F93CC95.5050209@locolomo.org> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:17:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Eighner References: <20120421055823.GA6788@tinyCurrent> <4F9253D7.7010609@locolomo.org> <4F9278A2.1020301@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:17:19 -0000 On 21/04/2012 16:10, Lars Eighner wrote: > UTF-8 is a waste of storage for most people and is incompatiple with > text-mode tools: it's simple another bid to make it impossible to run > without a GUI. UTF-8 is variable with, ascii characters are stored as single bytes (not sure about iso-8859-1) while other characters are stored as two byte chars. If your text tools cannot display certain or all UTF-8 characters it is for one of the following reasons: it is either because the application does not support UTF-8, the display table is missing some characters, or the limited display capabilities of terminal/console mode and the complexity of that particular glyph. Neither of the first two cases are an agument against UTF-8, it's a it's an implementation issue, send a bug report or feature request to the developer. In the last case, I hope you're not saying that we should limit the fredom of expression to what can be expressed in console mode? :P Cheers, Erik -- M: +34 666 334 818 T: +34 915 211 157