From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 25 16:14:18 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 130A61065672 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D288FC1C for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from macbook-pro.jnpr.net (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K6500CLNZRBY790@asmtp020.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <85D9ECC0-D8BB-406B-B527-036242A1BC4D@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Alexander Churanov In-reply-to: <3cb459ed0808250621s28a1b825u1cc16939951bb157@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:13:59 -0700 References: <3cb459ed0808221700w335b0906g6901d8b8bec4dad9@mail.gmail.com> <200808241415.31812.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> <6a7033710808241239p1cbdc7adwd4f87814b428b10b@mail.gmail.com> <3cb459ed0808241958v552eafejf7841f0f9993928e@mail.gmail.com> <48B28B8D.9030305@kjarrval.is> <3cb459ed0808250621s28a1b825u1cc16939951bb157@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Svavar_L=FAthersson?= 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: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:14:18 -0000 On Aug 25, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Alexander Churanov wrote: > I'm just trying to be realistic and provide doable solution. I leave > plans > of rewriting every bit of software to others. And I even think that > latter > is not required, since syscons console is probably not heavily used > now. This is not true. FreeBSD is used in far more environments than the typical desktop environment running X11. It is therefore important to realize that you cannot claim that there's always X11 to fall back upon when it comes to i18n or that those cases are not significant or important enough to consider. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com