Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 08:42:53 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue) Message-ID: <20110609084253.04d42e78.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <C7306FBF-4C14-4CF5-A7B3-D08B854DF66B@mac.com> References: <20110608195705.GA60747@freebsd.org> <C7306FBF-4C14-4CF5-A7B3-D08B854DF66B@mac.com>
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:18:34 -0700, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Fortunately, ISO 8859-15 can be stored on FreeBSD's UFS > filesystem without lossage-- other character sets can't > since UFS doesn't do Unicode per se, just UTF-8. Storing is one thing, correct displaying is the other. As Alexander mentioned, display for 8851-1 and -15 even work in text mode console (using cons25l1) in terms of Umlauts and Eszett. The "speciality" of -15, the Euro symbol, won't be displayed if I remember correctly. Maybe the "currency symbol" (squished bug) will be used instead? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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