From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 19 14:14:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459DE16A418 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:14:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CC413C46B for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:14:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IY0JQ-0004yq-Dt for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:13:56 +0200 Received: from 89-172-41-249.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([89.172.41.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:13:56 +0200 Received: from ivoras by 89-172-41-249.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:13:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:13:17 +0200 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig67FD7D61F81EDE33E473D4B2" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89-172-41-249.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Sender: news Subject: Re: Encoding in 7-CURRENT (next 7.0). X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:14:14 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig67FD7D61F81EDE33E473D4B2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable TooMany Secrets wrote: > Hi! >=20 > I would like to know if the next release (7-RELENG), will come with > the system into utf-8 encoding. > I know that I can put my home, apps, etc, into UTF-8 without problems, > but if I try this with the system, it could be more "dangerous". I don't quite get what you mean by "system into utf-8 encoding". You can have UTF-8 filenames in UFS (and AFAIK almost all other file systems, with exception of msdosfs), and there will be no corruption. Problems you will almost certainly encounter are: - bogus / wrong sorting (FreeBSD's locale data for utf-8 is very lacking)= - the console (text-mode) doesn't support utf-8 so you'll see "garbage" on it - problems with Samba (more) and NFS (less, if the destination system is configured to interpret file names as utf-8). --------------enig67FD7D61F81EDE33E473D4B2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG8S59ldnAQVacBcgRAhFNAKCRpY1kCQ6O7zGqh6sTMcOy8sTawQCeJ89H 0pkUgktg2aVKtxH0cOhqoJk= =64Y8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig67FD7D61F81EDE33E473D4B2--