From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 20:24:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F14C37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 20:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jupiter.okstate.edu (jupiter.okstate.edu [139.78.100.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F7143E6A for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 20:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hje@okstate.edu) Received: from dexter.okstate.edu (dexter.okstate.edu [139.78.100.26]) by jupiter.okstate.edu (Switch-2.1.4/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id g8K3OJL59068 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:24:19 -0500 Received: from dexter.okstate.edu (dexter.okstate.edu [139.78.100.26]) by dexter.okstate.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9) with SMTP id <0H2P000DMW4J8J@dexter.okstate.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:24:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:24:19 -0500 (CDT) From: hje@okstate.edu Subject: Multibyte code and unicode support To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <522316586.1032492259078.JavaMail.root@dexter.okstate.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sun(TM) Web Access 1.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, (this might be a dumb question) does freebsd support mulibyte and/or unicode in kernel level? would it be possible that freebsd support japanese as natively as japanese version of ms win98? would it be possible for freebsd to support unicode while supporting japanese char coding system for non-unicode aware applications like ms win2k? if freebsd does not support unicode or multibyte, is there a planned project? thanks so much for reading. sincerely, joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message