Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 04:13:40 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ncurses 5.2 Message-ID: <20020910041340.61e63ce6.jylefort@brutele.be> In-Reply-To: <20020910014819.GA48977@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020910032510.71716140.jylefort@brutele.be> <20020910014819.GA48977@dan.emsphone.com>
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--=.R6?smahQVcQD2B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:48:20 -0500 Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 10), Jean-Yves Lefort said: > > Are there any plans to incorporate ncurses 5.2 into the base system? > > > > *or* > > > > Is there any good way to install the devel/ncurses port (it's 5.2 > > there) and not have it conflict with the base ncurses? > > *or* > > > > Why does nobody seems to care about a better UTF-8 support in > > FreeBSD? ncurses 5.2 is needed for UTF-8 support, and -STABLE aswell > > as -CURRENT are still lagging behind with 5.1. > > Since we don't have a utf-8 console and single-charset xterms work > fine for most people, there's not much need for one. Probably american people don't feel the need for it, but here in Europe, for instance, almost every language needs non-ASCII characters (finnish, swedish, french, italian, spanish, german, ...). Is the FreeBSD project ditching the rest of the world? > -current is currently running a 5.2-20020615 snapshot, and will most > likely get 5.3 very soon (5.3 is in prerelease stage right now). My mistake; seems that I haven't checked the CVS repository for a while. > -stable will probably get upgraded to 5.3 if it can be done without > impacting the rest of the system. Now, that's a good news :) Thanks for your enlightening informations, Jean-Yves Lefort -- Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@brutele.be http://void.adminz.be/ --=.R6?smahQVcQD2B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9fVVmyzD7UaO4AGoRAuuJAJ9iwiT6NKEIlQRCq2jH2r+CFiy6mACffXwP d5UR3aZvqg/XYaUcNDDUhDE= =8RAl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.R6?smahQVcQD2B-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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