Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:10:33 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Eugene <el2000@km.ru> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode locale Message-ID: <20040709121033.GA24663@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <40EE7C81.004DA8.03912@e-post02.e-se.ru> References: <40EE7C81.004DA8.03912@e-post02.e-se.ru>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:07:45PM +0400, Eugene wrote: > > Hello Tim, > > TR> The base system has a UTF-8 version of every supported locale in 5.2-CURRENT, > TR> but for previous releases (inc. 5.1), you'll have to install misc/utf8locale > TR> from the ports collection. > > TR> Support for UTF-8 (and other multi-byte encodings) has been greatly improved > TR> since 5.1 and 5.2, so you'd do well to upgrade to 5.3 when it's released. > > Thank you for the info! > I installed this port. > Have you any info about release dates of 5.3 version? A date hasn't been decided yet, but it's likely to be 2-3 months yet. > Do you know is there some upgrade guide from older encodings to utf-8? > There's no problems for people worked in ASCII due to backward > compatibility, but on my system there's files in 8-bit encodings like > KOI8-R and windows-1251. > What can you recommend me? I don't know of any upgrade guides, but the converters/libiconv port should be able to convert those files -- take a look at the iconv(1) manual page after installing it, but basically: iconv -f KOI8-R -t UTF-8 <oldfile >newfile Tim
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