From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 15: 7: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA1537B81A for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp3.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.18]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA22854; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:05:11 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00986; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:08:56 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:08:56 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Alex Belits Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , MikeM , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <3.0.6.32.20000403221617.008e2500@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:59:51PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:59:51PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > > > Really the question is much more basic -- who benefits from > > > having Unicode (or Unicode in the form of UTF-8) support. It > > > isn't me for sure > > > > Everyone who works with multilingual documents. > > I feel perfectly fine with "multilingual" documents that contain > English and Russian text without Unicode. This is bilingual. I have found myself in the need to write in English, Modern Greek (one accent), and Ancient Greek (many accents). This is not possible using 8-bit fonts, since the glyphs for the accented ancient greek alone are much more than 128. Of course, it still remains to be seen if having Unicode support on the console is a Good Thing(TM). - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message