Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 08:58:40 +0200 From: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of Unicode collation support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CAO%2BPfDc3MSiKsu8EiFM%2BCWHsERHVZb9=mO==aY6SNC=8yW-WkQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130910093009.GA25595@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <20130828131017.GA89499@lyxys.ka.sub.org> <CAO%2BPfDcqbRubUgKznpWRNzq2B=HN3Q7OUTpQ%2Bwhj%2BTDY9M72fQ@mail.gmail.com> <20130910093009.GA25595@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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2013/9/10 Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>: > * David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> [130910 10:26]: >> 2013/8/28 Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>: >>> [crossposted to -stable and -i18n] >>> could someone point me to infos regarding Unicode collation support in FreeBSD? >>> All I could find was https://wiki.freebsd.org/KonradJankowski/Collation but >>> that page has not been changed in more than two years. Looking at sources of >>> -current it doesn't look like those changes made it into the source tree yet. > >> I think no one is really interested to add real UTF-8 support to >> Syscons. Currently you can get UTF-8 output by using Syscons xterm >> ttys (which is default) and set your appropriate locales. For input >> it's currently (unfortunately) not supported. > >> If you use X.Org, then your fine using UTF-8. > > There might be a misunderstanding: Collation is about ordering characters and > sorting strings. What we have in FreeBSD right now is support for input and > output of utf-8 characters, and with X11 and the right set of fonts they > display ok, and at least using vim editing utf-8 text works ok. But sorting > utf-8 strings yields "interesting" results as soon as you have non-ascii > characters in your strings. > Aaah, okay sorry I really did misunderstanding the question yes ;-). Regards, -- Demelier David
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