Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:22:31 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Erik Norgaard" <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Charactersets and encoding: switching from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 Message-ID: <cb5206420603160222u5eefc459l34e64b2744c0bf93@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44193105.5070204@locolomo.org> References: <44193105.5070204@locolomo.org>
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On 3/16/06, Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: > Hi: > > I have just installed a virgin system, FBSD 6.1-BETA3 and upgraded to > the head of RELENG_6. Since it is virgin, I thought this may be the time > to make the switch to UTF-8. > > Googling, it appears that UTF-8 was introduced in the base in 2004, but > I find no keymaps for UTF-8 console, no fonts, no console definition > in /etc/termcap. > > Is FreeBSD ready for UTF-8? > > Secondly, if I successfully switch, how do I best convert files to > UTF-8? One think is text files, I assume this should be simple, but then > there are all the other files such as music and images with text embedded. > > I have understood that UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII but not with the > ISO character sets used in Europe. > > Thanks, Erik > > -- > Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org > S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt > Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 > Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I wonder if you should google more on UTF-8 and its support in operating systems. For one thing, you won't get a unicode console, not on your traditional x86 hardware. It's easy to get UTF-8 support in X, though. Just set LANG, LC_ALL and some other variables (the more the better) to en_US.UTF-8 or whatever unicode locale you want. You'll have to recompile some ports with UTF8 support. Check their makefiles for that. Good luck!help
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