Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:40:38 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD Message-ID: <hnahav$oaf$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4B98865B.5080300@gmail.com> References: <4B98865B.5080300@gmail.com>
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On 03/11/10 06:57, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > Isn`t it time for FreeBSD to fully support Unicode/UTF-8 by now? Yes! Good of you to say so! Your code and other patches will be integrated as soon as you send them. > It is considered to be standard charset by now. XML uses it by default. > If you are working with texts in different languages there is no > alternative to UTF-8. > If you chat with a Linux machine you can easily run into charset > troubles if you are > still using the old iso-8859-1. > > By now it is no problem to activate UTF-8 for your console. > However a comprehensive Unicode support would require much more: > i.e. configuring all user packages like KDE for Unicode support and > asserting that also file names (f.i. from ext2 partitions) are interpreted > correctly. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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