Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:30:09 +0200 From: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of Unicode collation support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20130910093009.GA25595@lyxys.ka.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <CAO%2BPfDcqbRubUgKznpWRNzq2B=HN3Q7OUTpQ%2Bwhj%2BTDY9M72fQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20130828131017.GA89499@lyxys.ka.sub.org> <CAO%2BPfDcqbRubUgKznpWRNzq2B=HN3Q7OUTpQ%2Bwhj%2BTDY9M72fQ@mail.gmail.com>
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* David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> [130910 10:26]: > 2013/8/28 Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>: >> [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. Wolfgang
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