From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 20:18:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9BD106566B for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:18:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexanderchuranov@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7118FC0A for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:18:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexanderchuranov@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so643975eyi.7 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:18:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=t+Z1C/BGHsS89nrhH0BKjZ5Rmn8bX91JyBxtp/IHfYo=; b=vcSVKAKvwAxfnn2Nwi9+guFgccLtO7x4DsbeJFDuxt4pgU+dTpvJH97nnsAthCxjKd ESsjamyzHYrXrzg0O8IGFCdd321jefGScvweJzYpkWPJZapo1AD38igvp+z60JIZoLLm BLRsAYyqrfw025e1/7ZPvf5RqLRryXVZgRge4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=hHLQqSF3SgLmBsn9zMQX/SpPlr/qZDEG3f00RTT5wTxV2lQusJX11Z9H1URqSmHHer FnDDW1kveX+UUr4CsapGIqzSabQpnik7Ib1ul5f0OeB9EW1/l5T2lIwu29HT9cq/EiMg pOwQ+8JnYBpsKEAJLeoNrPUlGVWbKVOJYZwKs= Received: by 10.210.67.20 with SMTP id p20mr5364780eba.66.1220213902775; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.130.15 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3cb459ed0808311318s498884f4tf02b582406833fb5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:18:22 +0400 From: "Alexander Churanov" To: "Konrad Jankowski" In-Reply-To: <716a8d5f0808291804r1f66ce2ek176c2fac28a94c92@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3cb459ed0808250952j572dfc35j2feb852a73de5ace@mail.gmail.com> <200808281718.m7SHISGL067492@lurza.secnetix.de> <3cb459ed0808290636r5eb389c8y6d4aafae1b8001cf@mail.gmail.com> <3cb459ed0808291708l581422c1pdb2e3cb2913ecaa7@mail.gmail.com> <716a8d5f0808291804r1f66ce2ek176c2fac28a94c92@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, olli@lurza.secnetix.de, Tz-Huan Huang , Peter Wemm Subject: Re: Unicode-based FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:18:24 -0000 2008/8/30 Konrad Jankowski > I support the initial idea - i'd like to 'cat' UTF8 encoded Polish > files in the console. And this can easily accommodate most European > languages. But there will need to be a secondary switching mechanism > for selecting which part of the Unicode is being mapped at the time. There is a "scrnmap". The difference is it maps from 8-bit to 8-bit now, and I want it to map from UTF-8 to 8-bit. > We also get a bonus - for people that use languages like Polish, they > can stay in text mode and not loose speed, which is Inherent with > VESA. > Yes, people will be able to read and write Polish in syscons. At the other hand, reading Polish and Russian at the same type will not be possible. However, users are already able to do it right now. The improvement is that people will use a single encoding for configuration files, manual pages and other things - UTF-8. Alexander Churanov