Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:08:27 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UTF-8 collations on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20071216180827.GA79300@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <fk3ldl$ght$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <fk3ldl$ght$1@ger.gmane.org>
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--jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 05:57:25PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Hi, >=20 > What is the status of multibyte (in particular, I'm only interested in > UTF-8) support in FreeBSD? I remember there have been many reports that > it simply "doesn't work" but they have been posted before RELENG_7. >=20 > If the multibyte support does work, I'm interested in creating the > necessary tables for my language and I'd like to know what is the best > place to start researching how it's done? >=20 Multibyte support works, excepting to collation which defaults to=20 single byte order. AFAIK, no one is taking this task yet. Speaking particulary about UTF-8, it will be better to have single sorting= =20 table for whole UTF-8 rather then for particular language. See what other systems (f.e. Linux) have done. --=20 http://ache.pp.ru/ --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHZWmbVg5YK5ZEdN0RAh3AAKCQ/izLrznad8Onox//B8hrqJcXKACgtkqD Is6Hkt8lbJ8tq4ExIKgyju0= =4hYg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--
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