From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 13:57:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE0437BAB9 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:57:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id WAA22914 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:57:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA44510 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:53:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Date: 4 Apr 2000 22:53:19 +0200 Message-ID: <8cdknv$1bel$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Belits wrote: > I have just asked, who will benefit from it. No one answered "I will" -- I WILL. I want to be able to mention Henry Charri{e grave}re and Stanis{l stroke}aw Lem in a single document and spell those names correctly. Actually, that's a real world example. I already do on a web page, and of course this is only possible because of the underlying Unicode character set of HTML. I want to be able to give a book title in Cyrillic or Greek. I want to be able to quote from _Beowulf_. I *desperately* want to use IPA rather than various ad-hoc ASCII transcriptions. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message