From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 21:17:33 2005 Return-Path: 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 6248F16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:17:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A91443D1F for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:17:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9484E5DB5; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:17:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69325-05; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:17:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56085CE7; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:17:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <422CC4F7.9090702@mac.com> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:17:43 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stevan Tiefert References: <200503071420.04168.stevan@mail.rot-1.de> In-Reply-To: <200503071420.04168.stevan@mail.rot-1.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 in the next releases? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:17:33 -0000 Stevan Tiefert wrote: > I have a small question to you! Is UTF-8 planned to be integrated in the > system like in SuSE Linux ? Maybe in the next releases or never??? What do you mean by UTF-8 integration? Many of the system utilities have been internationalized via things like gettext and libintl, and third-party software will support internationization via ports in much the same way. [ Similar to what you'd find under SuSE, in other words. ] As for documentation, there is language support for: 72-sec% ls -1F /usr/share/doc | grep -v @ IPv6/ bind/ de_DE.ISO8859-1/ el_GR.ISO8859-7/ en_US.ISO8859-1/ es_ES.ISO8859-1/ fr_FR.ISO8859-1/ it_IT.ISO8859-15/ ja/ ncurses/ ntp/ papers/ psd/ ru_RU.KOI8-R/ smm/ sr_YU.ISO8859-2/ usd/ zh_TW.Big5/ -- -Chuck