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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:20:03 -0400
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To:        "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        arek@wup-katowice.pl, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UTF-8 file + console
Message-ID:  <20090331182003.GA2538@saltmine.radix.net>
In-Reply-To: <3a142e750903310315i11e1462bt14d11ee0d4123cb6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <49D1AE8C.8070704@wup-katowice.pl> <3a142e750903310236g2622ef57q1f32906f639fea03@mail.gmail.com> <20090331100407.GA11424@saltmine.radix.net> <3a142e750903310315i11e1462bt14d11ee0d4123cb6@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 3/31/09, Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> >> On 3/31/09, Arek Czereszewski <arek@wup-katowice.pl> wrote:
> >> > I have php application in UTF-8 on server
> >> > (in files are 4 languages: PL, SK, CZ and EN).
=2E..
> > That might be a configuration issue rather than the program.
> > ("EN" in particular ;-)
>=20
> Generally speaking FreeBSD console doesnt support UTF-8. So even if
> program (in this case vim) supports UTF-8 it will not work.

There's two parts: does the editor knows how to manipulate UTF-8,
and does the terminal display UTF-8.  If the editor knows that the
terminal doesn't display UTF-8, it can choose a representation that
works for the terminal (even if it happens to be FreeBSD's console).

--=20
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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