From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 13 06:58:42 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B98FB8; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-x230.google.com (mail-wg0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3EF2F2B7D; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f48.google.com with SMTP id n12so733712wgh.27 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:58:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=/VS0/L1EmDXFK/l8b8S8kzfJ/CGVktSRZskmYT1Sxz4=; b=Y7q5E+mTHxnZPbmzXqx+HtqBjR+h/itHQ0wGsggFxWd/aAUCF4VD0WUVEOxathTtaN B2gvFGf6RzW57N2I1ERbZnbeY7/A2y0f+lHAqXySFFKzE6vi5WsjKDNTcE3m204YSJyA L/ZJpI3B73fGu6kau7dUwEnOqI6wmQW7ycACnwHXD0nyCj13C3Xvlmg4fpxt3bCosioZ ErN3jsTX3EhnbyowbD8lVpS6UYLbSaMZtgaJ/Ex/hddjGmVQyzPfhzutxP+xvV2igNdQ jFSojmsjkA4LNE+t/O02WdTqfr271CgCfvPEbuYJWCMSVckb/0ib6aiYsawNsk7/DAse lZQA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.85.65 with SMTP id f1mr1212271wiz.33.1379055520489; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:58:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.157.69 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:58:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130910093009.GA25595@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <20130828131017.GA89499@lyxys.ka.sub.org> <20130910093009.GA25595@lyxys.ka.sub.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 08:58:40 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: State of Unicode collation support in FreeBSD? From: David Demelier To: Wolfgang Zenker Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:58:42 -0000 2013/9/10 Wolfgang Zenker : > * David Demelier [130910 10:26]: >> 2013/8/28 Wolfgang Zenker : >>> [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