Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:00:01 +0200 From: Philipp Reichmuth <reichmuth@web.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: UTF-8 Message-ID: <1801875181.20010720150001@web.de>
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Hello Questions-folks, I am currently experimenting with using Unicode in multilingual document processing, and since I use a central document repository on a FreeBSD-based server, I was wondering to what degree FreeBSD supports Unicode. I can probably use the UTF-8 compatible xterm that comes with XFree86 4.0.3 and higher with unicode-enabled fonts without problems; the interesting things start with system interaction. Does anyone know if and how I can enable UTF-8 as input/output encoding in the system console? Can I use UTF-8 encoded filenames? (NULL never occurs in UTF-8 strings, but I'm no FFS expert, so I don't know what other obstacles there might be.) The ultimate goal is to have a system that is completely Unicode-based, so that I'll never have to worry about character encodings and writing systems again. On another note, due to frequent power cuts where I'm living at the moment I really hate the age-long fscks on the server with the occasional data loss involved. Can I use a journaling filesystem with BSD? Thanks in advance Philipp mailto:reichmuth@web.de __________________________ Miten tämä vaikuttaa? - Tappaa. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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