Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:38:42 +0400 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: ronggui <ronggui.huang@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support UTF-8 locale well? Message-ID: <20070918203841.GC3275@amilo.cenkes.org> In-Reply-To: <38b9f0350709180941o33d20c98t6d2019ab59af7523@mail.gmail.com> References: <38b9f0350709180941o33d20c98t6d2019ab59af7523@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:41:45AM +0800, ronggui wrote: > I try to use zh_CN.UTF-8 as locales, but the FAT3 data can not display > correctly. When I use zh_CN.EUC as locale, things get better, but not > all the Chinese characters display correctly. > > In terms of UTF-8 support, Linux seems better than FreeBSD. How do you > guys think? I don't have any FAT3 data, but I've been using UTF-8 locales on most of my desktop and server systems for years now and never experienced any serious problems. You have to expect a few surprieses - when dealing with ISO-8859-encoded data, for example, but overall my experience has been quite smooth.
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