From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 9 19:14:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459E337B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mirapoint3.brutele.be (mirapoint3.brutele.be [212.68.203.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E65643E42 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jylefort@brutele.be) Received: from gateway.lefort.net ([213.189.162.78]) by mirapoint3.brutele.be (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.1.34) with ESMTP id ABR09076; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:15:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (jsite.lefort.net [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.lefort.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFF01520B; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 04:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jsite.lefort.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D582422FFC; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 04:13:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 04:13:40 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort To: Dan Nelson 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.R6?smahQVcQD2B" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=.R6?smahQVcQD2B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:48:20 -0500 Dan Nelson 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