From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 10:40:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB50106566B for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:40:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7CE8FC24 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Npfom-0008VP-Tv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:40:40 +0100 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:40:40 +0100 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:40:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:40:38 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4B98865B.5080300@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100118 Thunderbird/3.0 In-Reply-To: <4B98865B.5080300@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:40:43 -0000 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" >