From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 18:23:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896C7106567F for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62D5A8FC15 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj4 with SMTP id 4so987384pwj.13 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:23:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZlmtAbbyjX/umm3vYH1Db/RLDY/k24sj27nov5AQkvM=; b=hrK2i8Q1iIGXPG2psybZvvBj7KqeekHofYDch9sc1DrVXMIczce6XrHqp+Jl385Vth IOIcS8mVyJQuPsTUrVv8m9I9UMw6PEIO/6bdKqwkPWMCntlDGDKfjGREYdOxySr3AMPV 5m5PvT9SfGsrSl4bf1ll5ARfa0Do//OhV9oZc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=YmuCUBHz0xXP/mgqgR+cspVQJE69yW9FytMOBKRT6z6SM4V6RkmfMUc+KTzVvyecGn 10n5LiZ/hJoxZ0rKaExVipdDI4LBbS4rQdCmjdsp/WrFzpitc173Ojmh9J5cuehY9c4e pVo2h8c3dYpKYlgP6pAt/EpDFC0X6lq3TzQio= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.115.115.21 with SMTP id s21mr1373059wam.63.1268418197748; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:23:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com> References: <4B9A7D2D.9070903@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:23:17 +0800 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?6JGJ5L2z5aiBIEppYXdlaSBZZQ==?= To: Elmar Stellnberger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:23:18 -0000 On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > Isn`t it time for FreeBSD to fully support Unicode/UTF-8 by now? > It is considered to be standard charset by now. XML uses it by default. > If you are working with texts in different languages there is no > alternative to UTF-8. > If you chat with a Linux machine you can easily run into charset > troubles if you are > still using the old iso-8859-1. > > By now it is no problem to activate UTF-8 for your console. > However a comprehensive Unicode support would require much more: > i.e. configuring all user packages like KDE for Unicode support and > asserting that also file names (f.i. from ext2 partitions) are interpreted > correctly. Do you have a concrete example of how FreeBSD fails to support UTF-8? I have been setting my LANG to zh_TW.UTF-8 for years without problem with modern software. As this is the ports list, I guess you have some issues with the software in the ports collection? CW. -- "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant."